School Things--Nursery Rhyme
I love my school things:
Crayons, ruler, and pad paper,
Glue, sharpener, and eraser;
Pens and pencils in a tin box
That need not close with any locks.
Some pocket money makes me smile--
To buy a gum to share with Kyle.
Notebooks with pictures on the cover
Of my idols--like Justin Bieber!
Oh, wait, there’s one thing I forgot--
The
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Categories:
notebooks, 4th grade, child, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Six Notebooks of Summer
Like Thoreau I sought out Walden’s Pond
For me, it was my grandmother’s field of soybeans
Lost in the bowels of a small gray shed I fancied a cabin
I stumbled on it when I was eight, an explorer, in the summer.
It became mine almost immediately, and I dragged in pillows.
If it had been closer to the house
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Categories:
notebooks, nostalgia, write, writing,
Form: Narrative
Categories:
notebooks, green, old,
Form: Concrete
Notebooks
I found my son’s old notebooks
Going way back to first grade.
His early writing and his thoughts
Are carefully displayed.
He was a quiet kid and mostly
Praise he did amass
But there, repeated 15 times:
“I will not talk in class.”
I marveled as his skills improved
And humor did appear
As he matured and gained a bit
More confidence each year.
These notebooks are
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Categories:
notebooks, school, son,
Form: Rhyme
Beyond the Papery, Lined Realms of the Manifold Pages of My Triadic Notebooks
A silly superstition enwraps and grips me,
It holds me and will not loosen its vile, crushing deathgrip:
It is a numerical one, this foolish superstition to which I have my subscription,
For this is the numerological sorcerous fallacy to which I've subscribed:
That, as I have yet published a baker's dozen of poems hereon,
(Though this
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Categories:
notebooks, age, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
Notebooks
People are always giving me notebooks
Once they find out I write
At christmas
At birthdays
At random
At least two a year
They sit in a stack on my shelf
Hundreds of pages blank
Hundreds of poems unwritten
White page syndrome
Magnified ten fold
Intimidation radiating off them in waves
I prefer to use a computer
There,
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Categories:
notebooks, writing,
Form: Free verse
Notebooks
Word upon word, sentence upon sentence
Some a little absurd and others about repentance
Some many of them just sitting there that sometimes I have to pry
Then saying, we’ll that isn’t fair and that’s just a flat out lie
But as I read more and reopen my heart
I see God at their core, He’s becoming a bigger part
So
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Categories:
notebooks, words,
Form: Rhyme
The Soul My Notebooks and I
The soul, my notebooks and I
The ant lies dead in her coffin
With no one at her funeral
But I and my notebooks
And her own soul
I sat clasping
My mountains of notebooks
Firmly to my chest crying
The size of goodbye.
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Categories:
notebooks, death, grief, loss,
Form: Free verse
To All the Notebooks Wasted
How often have I blundered
at the precipice
with brimming enthusiasm
hollowed by doubt and
want for survival?
With breath arrived a passion
to express beyond mere words
the notion that we are never alone
even when gripped by horrors
wrought against fellows.
Along your spiral spine I climb.
Your teeth clamor knowingly
with palpable fear at being dutiful
to the whims of an impatient
and infantile mortal.
Within the
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Categories:
notebooks, on writing and words
Form: Free verse
Me, Myself, and My Notebooks
the first time i took a pen and wrote some words on a notebook it was for a grade.
now i live it.
now i breathe it.
i express my feelings, feeds my soul.
to publish a least one book is my goal.
writing my everything.
i bleed it.
when i writing it takes all my worries away.
i want to be admire
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Categories:
notebooks, devotion, life, love,
Form: Blank verse