Short Cursive Poems

An exquisite ‘O’ curved her supple lips, 
she tilted into a cursive climax;
The loop of nails now a scar on his hips....

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in cursive shadows
a sun mused elm composes
    on pristine parchment

      ~~11 Dec 2016~~
         Troika Contest...

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It cannot really be too smart 
even if it knows your last cart;
A.I’s subversive,
just write in cursive;
Computers won’t know where to start....

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Some dull professor droned
		And from my heart
		Right to my pen
		In cursive sprang
		This lovely name,
		Notebook margins filled:
Kelly 
Kelly
Kelly...

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would feeling safe to scream be enough
can anyone dry uncried tears 
I need the opposite of opposites
to balance or steer

SOS a silent mantra
in non-Newtonian cursive 
I signed my life away
whilst my hands were tied

...

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swirls and loops
cursive beauty
crosses and dots
marks on paper
so much meaning
connotations
inspiration
shaking feelings
story poems
built so slowly
or tossed down fast
reminding us
of the power
we have over
swirls and loops...

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Our sun-worthy glance.
Petals from flowers
Bursting from your mouth,
Slid through the cursive lives we run.

We catch fire randomly,
In bothered sets.
But I'll love your hair forever,
Since my eyes were 
born out of yours to begin with....

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digits, emojis, abcs
compose a code
an irregular ode
void of literacy

cursive, capitalization, punctuation
go old school
immediate mass communication
has no rule.

how we connect
changes with time
words can’t reflect
your heart and mine...

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the runners cursive
   upon new fallen winter
      rake leans against rails

11/5/2019
A late Fall or Early Winter Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsor - Tania Kitchin

runners - either of the longitudinal pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides...

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The last page of my notebook was filled
today.

One last scratch on its timeless pages
reads:

watermelon radish
spicy water
dinosaur kale
dragonfruit (?)
pepitas

all scrawled in a quick, cursive hand
& I fell in love with her
    all over again....

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Practiced cursive writing
With a dash of calligraphy
Wrote my name on a baseball

Struck out three times that day
Made an error too
Alas the baseball odds are zany

If you succeed but once in three
But if you’re going oh for three
Forget cursive and calligraphy
...

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Manuscript written painstakenly
A large pencil held clumsily
Writing a story with words
Excitedly penning
Cursive writing learned
Poet's corner
Pen~paper
Word thoughts
Flow 

Sponsor: Michael J. Falotico
Contest: Your Journey
Written August 05, 2013...

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Severed starlight, brief lanterns

Truncate tingles, sugar burns

pen puzzling in oily ink

Dark dots on papyrus slink

Metre measure on tongue tip

Riddling rhymes gaining their grip

Cursive verses in past tense

---
Trying a new form tonight. Hope you enjoy...

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Here is a calligraphy a blue veined script,
on the rusty sheen of mortality.

Life and death are scrawled everywhere,
yet the clear-eyed read eternity:
written in-between these.

There one sees
the cursive messages that God writes
upon all things leaving
or yet to come....

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my back to the class,

i sneeze at white dust,

i attempt to cough

a single word…

it’s just one –

~

seems someone’s

erased

just one gray spot

~

i scratch my head,

until i cough cursive -

white on black.

~

…and the discourse continues...

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Yes! You are bloodhound! Just do fun with rule!
I’m your kick; your punch with cursive language!
Maybe you are the best norm of the Satanic pan!
 
But look still the best stand here with rose
and think that you will understand all
and you will come back as human!


-July 23, 2018 Chattogram...

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I'm Not wordy
I'm worth it 
My cursive 
Encourages  the mind, malnourished 

Enquiring on allusive conclusions
Is not cruel or foolish 
It is
True
The most  infinitive quest of life 
To question and test 
to prove or neglect  
to mourn or adapt
These are the most natural states of being...

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will to be diff’rent
fractals with cursive curlicues
cream-colored overalls

ostracized by nuns
and formal catechisms
with habitual fashion sense

now I’m in control
spinning like a pinwheel
with poetic enunciation

showed them, showed them all
i could take off my uniform
it’s monotone gray
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your eyes mail me letters
letters i rip open
with suspense and wanting
words never spoken
dancing phrases
that i feel in my knees
unfold in my stomach

your eyes write me love notes
notes i tear apart
they glance down my body
sending cursive messages
punctuating each breast 
with an exclamation mark 
between my thighs...

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Love hurts 
Like words written on my body
It’s a foreign language 
One I had not yet felt
It was a beautiful cursive type
But it stung with every curl and swirl 
It laced my skin with a drug that I hadn’t yet heard of 
Every touch blistered me with a velvet kiss 
Love kills me but I can’t let go
I’m entwined with the heart ache...

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A rush of blood to my fingertips and I am writing you, 

sketching your lips in the shapes of letters.

The commas become your eyelashes,

S becomes your hip,

T, your face,

periods become our kisses;

shallow white bones in cursive strokes.

I write you down to forget you.


This is the only way I know how to erase you....

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If I had a pet shark
I would name him Pete
He and I would swim together in a coral reef
I would point out game, and he would laugh

I would teach Pete how to speak American
I would teach him how to read
so that he could read my little hit list
I would point out who he should eat

I would skip cursive though
No one uses that any more...

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Lucky steampunk faerie finally found an adventure novel
Deep in the nook of the black forest’s sycamore grove
Especially for you, was written in cursive inside the cover
She had no idea who wrote it, but enjoyed the sentiment
I told you a human would like your book, an owl whispered.
“Not if you tell her it was written by a mouse,” his lunch said....

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Crisp curls of ink stains
Words in measured pain


Letters tell a tale
Word symbols spark sale


Read that timeless flow
Thoughts of ancient glow


Feel old feelings surge
Touch in awkward urge


Cursive writes in ink
Feel fashions odd links


Notes from years of old
History unfolds




Leon Enriquez
26 February 2017
Singapore...

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Chalk
 White powder rock.
 Just 45 minutes on the clock.
 Teacher is the tool.
 The chalk is the writer.
 Many lesions, many words.
 White dust across the black board.
 Erase to smudge.
 Chalk re-writes discipline.
 Learn as much as you can.
 Let poetry begin.
 Refining thoughts.
 Lost time writing in cursive.
 White limestone,
 To a soft smoked poem...

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