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Smudges Poems - Poems about Smudges

Square One
... The clean slate gleams, almost blinding. A stark white canvas where vibrant hues once clashed, or perhaps faded into a tired monochrome. No comforting smudges of the past remain, no familiar ......

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Categories: smudges, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Wilderness of Mirrors
... An unearthly fog thickens nocturnal’s peaceful aura. Scents of lamenting petrichor mix with slick, decomposing leaves. A disharmonious death knell calls to me, Untying the red strings of f......

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Categories: smudges, dark, emotions, gothic, imagery,
Form: Free verse



The Story Rolls On
...Yo, check the wall! New calendar's up! Crisp corners, dates so clean, what's up? "New Year, New Beginning!" the cards all scream, Same old story, same old tired dream. But out HERE, where the cit......

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Categories: smudges, anxiety, appreciation, change, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Poet’s Lines Not Bright Enough
... Goth mood’s not right, not bright enough. Fountain of sea, rapt in darkness. Crepuscular ink blocks sunlight. The cursive waves doth strain the wrist. Fa-la-la rhymes, leaping and lowing.......

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Categories: smudges, writing,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member cutting edge of the pencil
... plans incised on plain paper careful calligraphy of a plane sailing high above the clouds shrouded in anticipation veiled in smudges and tears slowly running out of ink resolute fears fu......

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Categories: smudges, allegory,
Form: Free verse



Processing
...Sturdy oak creaks as my weight shifts, hands tangling in my hair. My chair scrapes hardwood as I begin to pace. Processing... Processing... The flickering lamp casts strange shad......

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Categories: smudges, anxiety, conflict, god, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Choose You
...Choose you Choose yourself Don't get lost In someone else Choose the better version of you Choose even when you feeling blue Choose you first Never last See yourself Like clear glass......

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Categories: smudges, age,
Form: Rhyme
Writing Garbage Just To Feed Myself and Pay The Rent
...the keys stick when I type, the ink smudges on cheap paper, there’s an old man in the corner laughing through his dentures at my words. he knows, I know— it’s all garbage, all of it. writing......

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Categories: smudges, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gabriele Munter, Flowers and Fruit, 1949
...It seems dark, though daisies are open I still see in colour, so I cannot be broken Smears and smudges all left a mark Though daisies are open, it seems dark Held in embrace, are those people s......

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Categories: smudges, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Samson and The Liar: Parody
...Yond the Book of Judges, uncover the smudges, Samson and or Shimshon, a Nazarite vowed, son, Delilah deceptor, Philistia's daughter, The lipstick was preying, weight lift also praying,......

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Categories: smudges, analogy, beauty, betrayal, bible,
Form: Alexandrine
Grandiose
... What if I don't want the smudges off the shields? Why should I seek what races away from me? Not all struggles are worth the sweats. Can I choose myself and forget about how ironed m......

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Categories: smudges, art, cheer up, creation,
Form: Free verse
The Amber Eye of Tomorrow
...It was just a silhouette but it reminds me why I left the spirit box closed I felt as though the hand I was holding Was yours and not my own In my want to believe But reality hit me like a train......

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Categories: smudges, crush, dream, feelings, growing
Form: Free verse
The Flaws
...The flaws, The way that my shoulders are broader than they need to be, So that the small, tight tops never fit right, So that I look muscular, “Like a man,” my mother says, The way my nose i......

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Categories: smudges, anger, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Give Thanks
... I give thanks for gifts from creative ways And deep blue skies on sunny days I give thanks for the kind, caring gestures And wide open freedom in golden pastures I give thanks for guidance, s......

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Categories: smudges, appreciation, introspection, life, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Azure Sky Divine Stroke
...Written: September 30, 2023 Sponsored by: Silent One Pick a Colour Contest "There is my body, in it an ocean formed of his glory, all the creation, all the uni......

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Categories: smudges, analogy, appreciation, beauty, color,
Form: Rhyme

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