Time Notebook Poems

Slumber can wait, as twilight calls
Paper and pen quiet the rage
Transported down memories’ halls
Time’s passage, like print on a page

Through the flowing ink, words appear
Musings...

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He drew her ear to their story,
wishing to rouse her memory. 
He looked at her as he read her notebook, 
trying to change her puzzled...

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Not too many folks today use notebooks, I suppose.
Older folks like me would use them all the time
To take notes or do homework in. Essays...

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I made a mistake; thinking ahead,
I usually stay between the lines,
Loving what I have, rather than being led,
Avoiding all confusion and signs,
But now I have...

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Give me a notebook, a pen and some time.
My muse fills a page faster than I spend a dime.
I do not recognize stuff the very...

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My notebook is filled with promises, I say,
When I was young and hopeful for the years
To come, so sure that tomorrow would bring
Better days, and...

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THE MUSE by Anna Akhmatova

This is my English translation of a Russian poem by Anna Akhmatova…

The MUSE
by Anna Akhmatova
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

My being...

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The Notebook
Written: by Tom Wright
7-8-2016

Life is a notebook aged and wrinkled by time,
Margins are littered with names and number.
Of those sharing, who’ve made my life...

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You have to write what’s in front of you.
If you save it for later, it will disappear from view.
If you avoid the centre-stage and go...

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Seize words and thoughts
Brine works the lot


Time takes a while
To urge clear style


Jot brief ideas
Then strain them clear


Here and there write
As moments cite


Fill notebook page
As...

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I possess a notebook, real reflection of my soul,
two decades plus five beautiful years of company.
     When I turn the pages,...

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*From the day your eyes threw a spell on me, i became yours
*You rejected me many times, but dear, I never gave up ,
*I knew...

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*From the day your eyes threw a spell on me, i became yours 
*You rejected me many times, but dear, I never gave up , 
*I knew...

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Every time that I say "I hate you,"
Look in my notebook

And read all hundred love poems
That I'm too shy, or proud, to show;
Don't let me...

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Stimulating ideas pop into your head
You need a pen…you need a piece of lined paper 
It looks like you’re outtah luck…no wonder you’re drowning in...

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