Short Crayons Poems

mischievous twilight, raids the cosmic crayons - green and red missing...

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crayons their paintbrush

child's refrigerator art-

future artist born...

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cute color crayons
chalks bought for children well spent
canvas of rainbows

08 June 2021...

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I'd explain it to you, but you'd never catch on
because I neglected to bring my puppets and crayons....

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I
think
that sooner
or later, Crayola
will have to take the 
blame for continuing to 
make Crayons nostril width...

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Childhood comes to an end     when you go from crayons to the pen




*In this case, pen can mean writing utensil or penitentiary....

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Beautiful walls
A never ending fall
Colored in mist
Drowning in kisses
It’s a beautiful lie
A never ending life
Drawn in crayons of
Broken love....

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My
three
year old
grandson can
use an iPhone, open
and close apps and check
out my photos. When I was his 
age I was still eating all my crayons....

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grandson favors the black crayon
he always picks it first out of the lineup
even his rainbows have thick strips of black
to him black crayons matter....

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broken souls
like broken crayons
all are loved the same
It's the color of your soul
that distinguishes
the mood you set
to color the world
you live in...

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The
eyes show
subjection,
melancholy
and 
a
resigned
acceptance-
yet beauty shines
through.


Ekphrasis lanterne after
Head of a Negro by Watteau...

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once was an tricky old leprechaun
colored blarney stone with neon crayons
so much for gift of gab
I just hailed down a cab
and ran over that fairytail icon...

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Give a kid crayons and walk away,
Wash your walls

Hand a child a companion, and draw with crayons together,
Best friends forever...

May 19, 2017...

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Elon Musk has more money than brains
So he plays with space rockets, not trains
And now he can tweet
That Trump can't be beat
Since he traded his Sharpies for crayons...

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when you pull out your crayons
colour me happy
and when you do 
draw outside the lines

choose the colours 
that are seldom used
then draw from me easy
that which is hardest to find...

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faces tinted by 
          the canon of complexion…
             flesh colored crayons


Note – In the early 1960’s the flesh colored
Crayola Crayon was changed to pink beige
            due to “social concerns”....

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Waking up, no idea who first
seems little bit funny
Tickling child feet
gigli gigli
Pretending wisdom of encyclopedia for goodnight
Collecting favorite colors of crayons
unbreakable inside
Gigglitivly and irrelevant...

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Crayons of a rainbow consists of spectrums of many unique colors of a rainbow also in human forms ever hanging similar as a traffic signal or a mounted clock upon a wall vastly changing as the seasons 366 days in a degrees....

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plastic blocks         
      strewn across the floor
      picture books
      crayons too
      time playing with my grandkids
      a great adventure


3/20/15

A Shadorma has 6 lines with  3/5/3/3/7/5 syllables...

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This November morning
I see shivering pine trees
I want to paint a fire to warm them
But I forgot my crayons
Nevertheless
I enter the misty grove
Hug a young yew
With the flames inside me
Ignited by winter of your absence...

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drinks wine after school
has far too many

eruptions from

	small pitchers
	small bowels

	paper cuts
	budget cuts

	that	 	terrible mother

	racism filtered
	a 6 year old prism

and crayons

	all over

		the floor...

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I am at the beach
Laid out with two crayons at my feet
Colors bearing are yellow and orange 
Under the sun, hot and warm
Were to close together
Became

BROWN

2/26/20
Written words  by James Edward Lee Sr 2020...

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Her fingers were crayons,pens and brushes
She spoke in coughs and spurts and gushes
she spat out rhymes and cryptoquotes
til someone sang the world she wrote
and named their child that colored poem
   and found her secret way back home....

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Solo artist Snow works throughout night,
silently painting rooftops white,
crayons lawns, pencils in trees
a dazzling shade of white
over his great frieze;
his masterpiece
wins acclaim,
then melts -
shame!

Jack Horne for Linda-Marie's contest...

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