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Nib Poems - Poems about Nib

When Ink Unfreezes
... The frozen nib, a winter's still embrace, No flowing thought, no vibrant inked trace. A brittle point where words lay locked and deep, A silent promise, secrets it would keep. But warmth ar......

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Categories: nib, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member These words do not belong to me
...These words do not belong to me, they are parasites burrowing into the core of my thoughts, demanding flesh and permanence, as if ink could defy relentless entropy. They are called prophecies, but ......

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Categories: nib, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Prisoner of Poetry
...Metaphors and similes flow freely from my pen when I am scripting and scribing in poetic verse. Across the width of pale parchment pages the nib of my feathered pen continues to traverse. Ink c......

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Categories: nib, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Banned Book Club VII- 1984
...Midtone grey surrounds what’s left of a man’s soul Scenes of biblical abominations troll Inky are the hellish horizons appalled An okay is needed for anything at all Manipulating truth determin......

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Categories: nib, anxiety, books,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Outburst
...That tepid tea, civility, Is not the drink for such as me! Thou cusp, thou nib, thou pricket, prickle, tang and tine! Thy wit lacks width to grasp my line! ......

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Categories: nib, anger, baptism, conflict, emotions,
Form: Couplet



Your Absence
...In-fact I don’t want to dwell in your absence Necessary life is rushing gradually Silent breaths draw the mural of reinstated epic No bridge of love but a long-live sigh The verse of......

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Categories: nib, absence, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Journal
..."Although I'm familiar with the art of poetry, no one has inspired my muse to inscribe my own journal. - so I placed my soul in her hands." Silent One I used to be a journal, daily dips of in......

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Categories: nib, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Artificial Ink
...There was a feathered quill in Shakespeare's hand then he dipped the nib of his pen into a bit of ink That's how poetry was written, verses poetically grand Today, artificial poets use AI and it's......

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Categories: nib, community, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Flow and Ebb
...Flow and Ebb Nib and Tuck Never Ending Cause and Affect Friend or Foe ......

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Categories: nib, 12th grade, depression, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nuts in the Soup
...I wrote these lines 7 years ago, slightly edited today. Perhaps they have more meaning now than they did then. "There are so many nuts in the soup!" That's what I hear and see and it's ......

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Categories: nib, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member pen
...nib a streak tiny dots forming my words pen......

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Categories: nib, word play,
Form: Lanterne
Silence reigns supreme in my reich
...Silence reigns supreme in my reich No don (except me) doth trumpet within the aborted barren reach of freedoms within expansive realm, I annexed courtesy manifest destiny, which peoples now in......

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Categories: nib, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
The Breakthrough
...My fountain pen found its way, onto the internet, it was a transformative process, for both ink and blood. There were thousands before me, many talking in a strange language, of signs, signal......

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Categories: nib, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Face the false starts
...I think I’ll make a portrait With inky words of my soul But false starts get in the way I’m hungry the body says Feed the body, not the soul The soul will pester my body Make......

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Categories: nib, poems, poetry, poets, writing,
Form: Free verse
CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 2
...CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 2 Catullus CI: 'His Brother's Burial' translation by Michael R. Burch 1. Through many lands and over many seas I have journeyed, brother, to these wretched rites, to t......

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Categories: nib, brother, death, death of
Form: Rhyme

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