Creative Writing Poems

The creative mind
Manifests a work of art
With naught but words
Bridging the gap
Between thoughts
And words
And the more you write
A river may become a sea
And then an...

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I never understood this condition 
that continued to invade my writing 
skills at first I would write then go 
back to put the punctuation in...

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Every writer produces garbage, from time to time,
Stupid, embarrassing, awful stuff.
And despite what some poets seem to think,
Grammar is not a dirty word
Nor is it...

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You feel that tension deep within your soul,
momento mori, you are on a clock,
inside are many stories to be told,
but within your mind they seem...

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Found a feather today -- 
a pen of the great, soaring
past, of creative thoughts yielding
dips immortal...indelible on time
were the hands
of a Poe and Mozart

for me,...

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(Pema, 2018)

OCD

Working on compiling and editing my latest project
even my dreams become an obsessive loop
of cutting and pasting words and images
mostly just the same few...

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Remember when the ink, a writer’s tat, like a cobra spiralling ‘round fingers and arms, wielded power. Splotches, balled up, thrown into the basket hoop,...

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I sit here in this darkness, this place that feels so raw. Where the world is falling down around me and I feel I just...

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Like the strokes of an artist’s brush
Painting a self-portrait of my life
The colors are people, events, and experiences
Each stroke flows into the next creating the...

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Ideas flowing 
pen and paper is handy 
jotting every line...

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I have always had an urge to write_
have something to say-  something to tell
words shake the ocean of my sleep . . . 
and...

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Haunting night for writer's block decided to 
explore my writing endeavors awakened always 
at three am feeling overwhelmed from another night 
filled with words dancing...

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We poets, writers, misfits of the world 
like artist or mystics or troubadours
use our gifts to give insight to others
we offer more pulling back the...

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If my mind were a sea,
on one of its shores,
dreams would drift to me each night,
sometimes as beautiful as silken sand.

Also I might dream awake....

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Poetry has helped me maximize 
enjoyment of my functionality as a person
so blessed by the Lord in my capacity as a writer, 
teacher, social worker,...

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