Pointer Poems

As Clean as a Whistle

...As Clean as a Whistle

The park is a dance of colour
as leaves pirouette and waltz
around brazen, undressed trees.
November, and the sun sits weakly
even rather streakily in the sky
while I fo...
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Categories: pointer, dog,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA digital farce, we still count fingers!

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Before the chip, before binary code,
Before clocks showed in digital time mode,
Stood an ancient man with furrowed brow
Trying to track time and count numbers in a row.

He stared at stars, wa...
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Categories: pointer, time,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberTears Of A Clown

...Against a willowy wailing backdrop of inner chaos,
an indignant incendiary mask stifles the simmering cauldrons,
of a stoic stage clown post lachrymose performance wearily stunning yet stung,
or t...
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Categories: pointer, angst, anxiety, august, confusion,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Prismatic Self

...Spelling, syllable count, vanity, too simple, Simon! Be prolific, cruel, smart, up to par, above the bar, fit for the stage. Tap, tap, tap…
—by poet

The Prismatic Self

See the ...
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Categories: pointer, angst, confidence, introspection, writing,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberouija board sally

...ouija board sally
setting spiritual guidelines
shes séance savvy

soft black cloth
small silver bell and candle
silent visitors

they ask their questions
the pointer spells out a name
decep...
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Categories: pointer, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Senryu


Premium Memberthe sorcerers apprentice

...The old sorcerer was teaching his apprentice a lesson about the moon, but as usual the subject drifted, this time, to witches. “How would I know a witch if I saw one?” The apprentice asked.

“It’s ...
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Categories: pointer, fantasy, fun, humor, write,
Form: Free verse

Pistol Pop Quick

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Another horrible deal,  mouth, cloth, chlorophyll 
Lie still, lie still, in the fires burnt chill
Tiny blue pills, professional rookie kill
Amateur without skill, dripped blood spill

Please...
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Categories: pointer, dark, death, deep, life,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Blank Page

...The Blank Page

     When romantic plots and tales are sought
     In the aesthetic and creative mind,
     At first unseen within the empty page 
     Themes of lyrical verse are there to find....
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Categories: pointer, creation, inspiration, self, writing,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberStarless

...They called her Cookie at Animal Welfare, she had a white body with one black ear and a black spot on her upper butt. She had a friendly face and was 
pretty girl. Could not divide up the cute beagl...
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Categories: pointer, dog, heartbreak, pets,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberswizzles

...Three days in - three days of school - and it’s like I never left.

In school, you can get oversaturated with screens. I like books.
They have a sense of permanence, they don’t glare back at you,
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Categories: pointer, homework, school, student,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHis guardian angel visit

...she often appears in his dreams
wearing pink carnations and other flowers
those sky blue eyes staring through him
he cannot stop looking at her pink red lips

she is prettier in death than she h...
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Categories: pointer, woman,
Form: Narrative

Prologue 8 Ouija

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Gus didn't have the original pointer that came 
with the Ouija, so he used an extra Indian feather, 
since it came from a real Indian, 
it may prove to be advantageous. 
Since Indians were ...
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Categories: pointer, art,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberDon't underestimate Paradox

...Paradox

Appears and

Burns the story

And itself..

A shocking

Turn of events

In a story...



Stories are

Appearances

Of knowing..

Paradox points to

Not-knowing

Whi...
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Categories: pointer, celebration, irony, truth, words,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberDIVINE ASSERTIONS FROM A-Z

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Assertions of the Lord for awakening aspirations
Book of the Law*, the Bible is for my being’s beauty
Compass for existence with points of compassion
Direction of soul toward fulfillment driving...
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Categories: pointer, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Abecedarian

Premium MemberDeep Inner Meaning Part Two

...Hue and cry road map,
totem sign or lachrymose,
knee-deep self compass,
wading bird of psychic lull,
being is a misty quest,
that oblong pointer centered,
on some phantom bridge,
or other cros...
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Categories: pointer, birth, city, deep, environment,
Form: Free verse

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