Art Verse Poems

Written: July 19, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Rob Carmack

Quote "The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why" by Rumi

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The noise of the day
has subsided and folded
into a quiet
under the soft covers
of a July evening.
The eyes seem to resist
the particular and instead
focus on nothing...

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He’s behind the bar,
polishing glasses
like they’re his last remaining purpose.

“I know things!” he insists.
“I watch Question Time!
I once bought quinoa by accident!”

He pours stout
with the...

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“Kiss me,” she says—
her eye swollen, rimmed in red.
“Hold me,”
but not like that.
Not with fear pressed
into every rib.

He doesn’t answer.
Just slams the door.

“He loves me,”
she...

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Smoke from fires, joints, and white clouds
All agreed to get me high
Clouds shared the lit match around
My thoughts tripped, and went sky-high
To the edge of...

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Your kisses were like honey
as I tasted them on the street
late at night
your embraces were like a silk scarf....

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 ART!

He painted my death,
With such dedication I've never seen before.
Every stroke of his brush, on that paper, marking out each curve, twist, and turn...

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In Nishapur's dust and blazing heat,
A physician walked the wealthy street—
Young hands skilled in healing's art,
Rich purse, restless, yearning heart
That craved what gold could never...

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Piece Of Art

That Guy's 
A Piece Of Work
AND
A Work Of Art! 

A:
 PIZZA-WART!!!! 

I’m Not Sure Who
Would Be A Fan
Of That Kind Of:
“Humor”
But, You Know:

***Just...

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It is nice to spend time alone
but it is also nice
to spend time
with a warm hand
a warm voice
on your side....

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I need friend
To spend these empty days of mine
Where I talk to myself
And try to make myself happy
To have a coffee
To drink a little bit
To...

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Your Rain was tears on my window pane -
the first poem of yours I had seen -
pain-drops spattered a snow-blank expanse,
grief-blue with regret and what...

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Like a butterfly
Hop on flowers
And feed on the nectar of flowers....

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Marcel Duchamp
(French Dada artist, 1887 - 1968)


Marcel Duchamp is most celebrated
for a woman rushing down a stairwell naked,
a painting critics mocked from the start
as degenerate...

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Your life is your life, don't let it be knelt down into dark silence,
Be vigilant for the open paths, for the lights flickering in the...

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