Short Pen And Ink Poems

All poets ink,

Shakespeare pen!...

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A pen without ink is useless like a thoughtless being...

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a fountain pen
without ink
writes no lies
a man 
without a soul
lies in the dark...

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long and rigid
in hand
strokes command
plunging in
fluid spills
creation begins



*inspired...

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Hand finds a friendship 
Pen spreads ink in paper's depth 
Poem enjoys all


-January 07, 2018 Chattogram...

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Chance the work of man
Necessity a work for you

Paper and cloth

Pen and ink
Needle and thread

dancing with them....

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A pen without ink
                                        Loveless heart speaks nothing in
                                                  A Bird flies no wings...

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Strings of nighttime’s crystal roll
Where  pen and ink  drain  mashed  scroll
Till  bubbles pop—-lines console!



Triad In 7 Beats
Contest: Nette Onclaud  Feb 22/2017...

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My mind is working
My heart is thumping
I am alive.

I have my paper
My pen has ink
I am alive.

My eyes is searching
My hand is writing
I am alive.

My poem 
Done

and I live....

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Happy birthday, Noli Reyes, 
Friends make phone calls using the Skype; 
My pen and ink want to express 
Warm greeting in poetry type. 

Topic: Birthday of Noli Reyes (March 21)...

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Will write a Limerick I think
Sought out some paper pen and ink
By the time I did this
My words had gone amiss
Guess memory is on the blink


Penned 10 June 2017...

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One day I stopped to think
Just how bad life would stink
If someone took away my pen and ink

I could scratch a verse in the sand
But wave and tides would erase that plan
Leaving me a lonely man...

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The Art of Peace

Drawing lines that join two sides with arches sketching pen and ink perspectives.

7-10-22
Contest: The Art of Peace
Sponsor: John Lawless
Syllables checked with www.howmanysyllables...

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Started out in a bank as a bookkeeper and teller
Pen and ink was used to enter in the daily ledger
Ballpoints weren't around
Their secret wasn't found
Till a few years later, it became a top seller...

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The well is dry hear the bucket sound
As its metal hits the dry ground
From the windless let way down
No ker-splash was there found
Dip the pen in ink 
Far did it sink
So so far
Dry, dry
Clink ...

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A pen and ink within my hand
The music of my soul
A rush of wind in sacred boughs
The place I loose control
Of distant lands, of golden hills
And not a soul but I
Hidden by the light of man
I see through crystal eyes...

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Taken by a word
lost within a moment
a thought drifts
Memories linger
going on forever
as the sky
passing like a bird
as calm as a gentle breeze
Lost for words
as writers' block
a pen without ink
paper with no pen...

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My puter is broke 
This is no joke

My window to the world is blackened and closed

My wallet is broke 
This is no joke

My ability to fix my window is froze

My optimism is not broke
This allows me to joke

My creativity still flows through pen and ink...

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She writes some words 'pon the paper
Examines them
Then she writes one more word
Tears run down her cheeks
She crumples the paper
Letting it drop to the floor
With it the pen falls, ink spilling mixed with tears
Staining the paper upon the floor ...

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("Lone Pine", 2024, original pen and ink with encaustic mat)

Manzanita

Manzanita
atop a slight rise
forms a natural shrine
The place a person
could place an offering
or say a prayer
The place a meditator
would sit
and become a buddha

(9/30/91)...

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A moment between heaven
and earth
      wrapped in angel hair
            twinkly starlight
muted
      wondering . . .
gifted so with uncommon perception
from above
      heart left there
on poetic earth without care
oh master of pen and ink
      do you blink...

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There is a fountain pen leaking ink into a reservoir
near an ink road.
It continues to leak until the reservoir is full
and the water in the reservoir becomes as black as coal,
matching the stained dirt of beaches
and the fountain pen gone dry
shall write it's truths no more....

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Pen has ink,
ink has my ideas,
my will enters the pen,
and makes it run,
shaping ideas,
big or small,
shallow or deep,
while thoughts are multidimentional,
pen shrinks them to two,
but that is to ordinary eyes,
to perceptive ones,
the other dimensions spring up from paper,
and reach their minds and ideas....

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D-awn eighteenth February
O-pens the day with light; 
M-orn early Saturday
I-s setting things aright.
N-ight cold chilling rain
I-s nowhere in view; 
C-oal clouds have disappeared into the dark, gray, and blue.

L-et your pen and ink
A-im to meet the paper; 
R-ight words are arranged, 
A-s you write a long letter....

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("In the Beginning There Was the Word and the Word Was Good", 2019, original pen and ink)

Borderline

I’m only borderline
Dabbling in 
Mental instability
A fan at first
Opening a portal
Eventually possessed
In my own way
To create 
And create and create
But on the border
Is only mediocre

(11/18/23)
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