#pencil poems on Hello Poetry

Mrs Timetable Oct 2022

I can see the
Unfinished man
In pencil
That drawing that's missing
something
The outline of you
The curves of you forming
But still not whole
Still seeing who you might be
What moves you make
I can even see where
You have been erased
Mistakes have been drawn over
Paper is worn a little
Even torn
But
I'll be patient
I'll wait
For you to fill in
Get your lines straight
For you to be complete

And
Drawn in ink

Inspired by my nieces incomplete anatomy drawings in pencil

#traumas #anxiety #incomplete #childhood #drawing #pencil #ink #temporary #permanent

Panda Boy Apr 2022

Pencil

A pencil is
Such a wonderful tool.
Sharpen it well,
Or you will write like a fool.

#pencil #tool #fool #write #short

annh Feb 2022

Between Blue & Yellow

so much depends
upon a green pencil
fitted snugly between
the blue and the yellow

upon a line drawn
across a page
where the sky
and sunburst clay meet

— as neighbours
who smile and wave
without names
or words exchanged —

upon a silence punctuated
by shafts of pine
shaved close by winding
laneways into storyteller points

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens
- The Red Wheelbarrow, William Carlos Williams

#blue #clay #green #sunburst #page #pencil #pine #punctuated #sky #yellow

KHY Mar 2021

Writing Doubt

writing spiral
I'm writing the spiral
I'm on my paper
drawing my pencil
I am on my paper
and I'm drawing my pencil
as all these faces that I see
are just not adding up
into anything I want to be
or anywhere I want to go
and no matter what you say
I will never endorse it
back to the life
that takes your soul
and make it go away

an abstract poem on my insecurities about writing poetry, lyrics, or just creating art in general.

#writing #spiral #paper #pencil #drawing #faces #poem #poetry #life #endorse

Pockets Aug 2020

School

Sleep ran away with the sheep
It Made me wonder how I messed up counting
Now it’s 2 am and I’m struggling with the math
Adding in distractions
As the hours subtract
I wish I was back in class
All I did was sleep then If only I could do that now
Maybe I need to be laying on a note book and pencil
While I listen to some old person *****
that ill need to know this
You know Thinking about it tho ain’t that some ****
School couldn’t even teach me how to sleep
Yet they try to value
the weight of your dreams

#sleep #school #dreams #value #math #book #pencil

Storm Aug 2020

PENcil

I wish I was a pencil
So that when I do commit mistakes
I can always try to undo

But I realized
I'd preferably be a pen
It cant be erased
but I can always thrive...

to correct it

Dont let urself be defined by ur mistakes. Always remember to make use of it as an avenue to grow and correct it. I know its hard to do but someday u'll realize that what im saying is true. DONT LET UR MISTAKE DEFINE YOU. Grow little seed

#mistakes #fault #sadness #growth #happiness #realization #pencil #pen #correct #achievement

Zack Ripley Jun 2020

Erase

Sometimes, I wish my story
Was written with a pencil
Instead of a pen.
To be able to erase
all the bad times,
The mistakes,
The what could've been's.
But in the end,
I wouldn't trade them for anything.
They made me who I am today.
And to me, that's everything.

#pencil #pen #intheend #trade #today #anything #everything #poetry #insping

Amanda Kay Burke May 2020

No. 2 Pencil (Haiku)

No fancy journals
Designer markers or pens
Number two pencil

I now write in pen actually but this was written back when I only used pencils

#write #number #two #pencil #haiku #artist #fancy #journals #designer #markers

StormriderIX Apr 2020

Sketchy.

Sketchy.

Suspicious?

No
of course
not!

Sketchy!

Pencil?

Of course
I start
with pencil!

Sketchy.

What?

I'll sketch
a person,
of course.

Sketchy.

Hm.

It's a
person
on the run.

Sketchy indeed.
Suspicious enough.

I'm a bit of a jack of all trades in art. Writing, both fiction and poetry, and sketching.

#sketchy #suspicious #art #pencil #person