In Your Studio
I’m on your lap
in a photo I no longer have—
a toddler with a borrowed brush,
my hand caught mid-daub
on your canvas.
It was staged, of course—
your painting for a calendar
on the easel in front of us
like the month you gave me
a tool of your craft
and I mistook it
for permission—
but my brush didn’t
paint like yours.
Sometimes I wonder
if you
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Categories:
studio, art, childhood, father, growing
Form: Free verse
Close Enough for a Thursday
It’s been a long time since
I’ve ventured into
this new studio of mine—
dust has settled like ashes
on the unshelved books
and the jars of brushes
still packed away in boxes
that intimidate me.
Since I’m already here
I might as well unpack
one carton of my past.
I slit the tape on a box
labeled Miscellaneous,
not knowing what I’ll find.
Inside, a parrot, a toucan,
some
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Categories:
studio, absence, anxiety, art, courage,
Form: Free verse
All Creations Are The Studio Of God
Ah, the sea, the sea,
I love it, it's cleansing
It gives me peace and joy within
A renewed hope and recharge energy.
Oh, the beach, the beach,
Nice to play, and sunbathe here
Oh, I see the sand and me
I know are the same one day.
Oh, the beauty of the sea,
Is contagious, life's inspiring
Adventurous, yet lurk danger
It's vastness is
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Categories:
studio, art, beautiful, creation, work,
Form: Free verse
Batteries fully charged
The sun bursts through my window
flooding my world my universe.
I'm energized to start my day.
My mind on overdrive
overflows with creativity,
ideas cascade i wish i could keep up
Open those floodgates,
let’s see what happens ~
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
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Categories:
studio, art, creation, motivation, muse,
Form: Free verse
Studio Dune
Staircase shifts as my footsteps climb
Trapeze tree swing, springy arm chimpanzee
Undulates gripping limbs, gym sublime
Driftwood bone betides baton twirling frenzy
Intimate sub-sand somersault, primate
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Categories:
studio, blue,
Form: Acrostic
Henri Matisse's Studio
Henri Matisse's Studio
Scattered about like fish in a pond
are paintings and objects in a secluded room
in a sea of red shouting out loud;
Connoisseurs please enter, others not welcomed
The pink studio expresses acceptance
of chic bourgeois realism, re-enforcing boredom
with sunlight streaming through the window
and a welcome mat laying on the linoleum.
The colour-contrast room interiors
accentuate artworks during creative
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Categories:
studio, appreciation, art, perspective,
Form: Verse
THE STUDIO BOOTH
THE STUDIO BOOTH
In a studio booth, the rapper did stand,
With dreams of a hit, but empty pockets at hand.
"No money to record," he sadly exclaimed,
The producer's negative response was tamed4
As he kindly declared the session free,
Taking a financial loss like a kingpin real G.
Free of charge, the beats did play
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Categories:
studio, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
My Art Studio
My sanctuary is my art studio, which we carved out of our garage.
I have paints, canvases, brushes, and loads of glitter.
It’s my creative place where I can sit in silence or listen to music.
If I look up I am facing trees, which outline my three windows.
No one bothers me here. My husband knows better.
Sometimes the
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Categories:
studio, art,
Form: Prose Poetry
whose Studio is it
Whose studio is it?
Johnny Cash? Elvis? Willie?
We made lots of guesses of course.
Not realizing it was our cousin Norris.
Norris is always building one thing or another.
He cannot get along with employers or his brother.
What will he do with it? Someone brave asked us.
Rock and roll bound? Suggested our cousin Gus.
Norris built guitar-shaped studio because he
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Categories:
studio, music,
Form: Free verse
In the Face of Love
One would not know, to look at me,
my years spent at the ballet barre -
tights sticking to me in summer,
cold fingers in winter.
And the aching to be better,
to be seen,
to be given a correction from my teacher.
She was the goddess of all dance and knowledge,
the stern angel of technique and artistry.
She made me
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Categories:
studio, beauty, dance, self, student,
Form: Free verse
Emagi Rossetti Artist Studio
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI 'In an Artist Studio'
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Categories:
studio, art, poems,
Form: Shape
In the Studio With Dave
Ten guitars line the wall
A rack of six, a rack of four
Standing sideways to me while
Proudly facing me, two more
Making the point that this was a
Place of music, joy, creative pain
Emphasised by the lyrics of
A broken daisy chain,
Another a song of
A life over too soon
The only expressed regret of
How he would miss
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Categories:
studio, appreciation, music, peace, song,
Form: Rhyme
Studio
deep in studio
cloaked in thoughts, escaping strands
dwindle to paper
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Categories:
studio, analogy, art, december, deep,
Form: Haiku
Audio Recording of My Poems
High time i did their studio voicing
To ignite a genuine rejoicing
Over verses dismissed like Virus
And by Sun Magaz The Mysterious,
Poet making out as The Deleterious.
For all he might seem Boisterous...
But Good Producers gasp for cash,
Here in Nigeria ‘dying to smash;’
Rare knocks at their doors for sought job,
Even as
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Categories:
studio, imagination, inspiration, poetry, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
What Gets Me Out of My Art Studio
What gets me out of my art studio?
The urge to urinate, to eat, or to play word games.
I am a painter who wants to do nothing else during summer.
My husband can testify everything else is second choice.
Including him, but he does not mind.
He is also obsessive, and understands it well.
He should. We have been together
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Categories:
studio, art, sun,
Form: Personification
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