Where Waiting Lives
...It was one dusky evening.
I stood at my balcony,
The weather whispering secrets in a chill breeze
Beautiful, cold, and a little stormy,
The kind of weather that makes you feel
Everything you've ...
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Categories:
sketchbook, beautiful, change, destiny, leaving,
Form: Prose
a HAIGA from my sketchbook
...footsteps
in the streets -
echos of distant youth
I think
so I paint,
I imagine and pen-
mix in a hiku
to make
a haiga-like zen
...
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Categories:
sketchbook, art, word play,
Form: Ekphrasis
Dragon
...Firecracker red under Equator sun, lion’s mane
bobbing, obscene tongue. Unseen,
the serpent slips inside, small as a whisper.
It curls around my heart, hoarding it like treasure.
Fans warm embe...
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Categories:
sketchbook, allegory,
Form: Ode
CREATIVITY-PUBLICATION tenet 3x4
...PUBLICATION
In this digital age
Our
thoughts
bonded
together,
though ever apart
TWITTER
quick thoughts
cut short
POETRY SOUP
will test
the best
Pleasant peo...
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Categories:
sketchbook, education, poetry,
Form: Didactic
A Stroll with Paul Klee
...To pick up a line and take it for a stroll.
The essential is within, the mystics say,
but equally important is the outside:
a stunning summer sky, two wind-whipped clouds,
in the intense green ba...
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Categories:
sketchbook, art, beauty, creation, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Exercises In Silence
...1.
The light of dawn
from the slit of the curtain,
Silence
And the sound of silence.
2.
He opened his eyes. Faint images crossed the sky of his mind, he did not submit to them, took up hi...
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Categories:
sketchbook, emotions, loneliness, silence, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Ict-English Tandem
...By George P. Lumayag
https://georgelumayag.weebly.com/
Users learn English grammar when ICT is used.
Microsoft Word can check the misspelled words,
It even reminds the users' choppy words,
Goo...
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Categories:
sketchbook, wisdom, words, writing,
Form: Free verse
Earth Therapy For Me
...The strangers came and went into the house.
I barely noticed; my dirt had just been delivered.
A truck load of rich, black, northern Iowa farm soil.
I threw myself down and laid in it for a bit, s...
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Categories:
sketchbook, garden, joy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Outdoor Wonders
...Nature makes me blossom,
from the flower that blooms in my backyard,
to the tall trees that shimmer with green.
When I was five I remember exploring the outdoors,
taking my red sketchbook ever...
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Categories:
sketchbook, beauty, environment,
Form: ABC
Before the Film Begins
...Rolling into bed-n-blankets;
I turn to ensure that my pen, journal
and sketchbook are beside my bed.
My dream-companions need me,
as much as I need them.
they need my imagination and...
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Categories:
sketchbook, dream, imagination, introspection, poems,
Form: Free verse
Sketchbook
...Here with fond wit
Opt cheer to fit
Move joy's fine bits
Etch a true style
Apt that grand smile
Thrill sparks worthwhile
Make time for space
Ink words of grace
Dream syncs this place
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Categories:
sketchbook, change,
Form: Rhyme
Breakfast With a Teenage Daughter
...I hear the door open.
It is my chance.
I run up from the basement to
see my darling offspring who used to
love me, sneak out of her room.
She looks up from her cereal.
Is that a growl?
I sm...
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Categories:
sketchbook, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Sunny Moon
...Into my yoga room she came with a half moon
The sun burnt it, she said
For the moon dared to show in the afternoon
Her distress equalled the moons
Her tears, when they came, could fill a water ba...
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Categories:
sketchbook, 9th grade, animal, childhood,
Form: Bio
Muse Enthused
...She screams me awake; no rest tonight.
I arise, rub my bleary eyes
Grabbing pencil and sketchbook,
She pours onto the page
And I am amazed
That is so cool
Wish I could
Have done
Th...
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Categories:
sketchbook, appreciation, how i feel,
Form: Nonet
Thank God For the Sun
...The sun has been looking for me all day,
But I've chosen to hide under mismatched pajamas and layers of irritation.
I don't know what I'm angry about, I just am.
I wake up at 7:24, glare at the wo...
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Categories:
sketchbook, cheer up, depression, feelings,
Form: Free verse
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