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just another day at workAhh, the sound of a zipper unzipping.
My call to work. And…here I go! Whee!
So, what shall we be doing today?
Is it poetry? I like poetry. You're amiable when you write poetry.
Or is it sketching? Are we drawing elephants again? Can –
Ow! Ow!
Argh. My head.
I guess it's nothing fun today. Owww.

At least I don't have anything else to do now. Besides looking good, and making you look good.
Then again, I never have much to do anyways.
My job description simply states, “Control lead, and look cute while you're at it,”
And that doesn't require a lot of attention or time.

So now, I guess I have the rest of the hour

notepad.notepad.

notepad is my paragon: a white page
free of indulgence, bias, suggestions;
the blank window my empty, waiting stage,
welcoming my ideas and questions.
it lovingly saves my words as they are,
resolute against formatting my thought.
it demands naught from any, near or far,
yet is deemed redundant, a useless lot.
it is ignored, undervalued by all,
lost in the excessive font/colour plight,
the left | centre | right alignment curve ball,
when all that is needed is black on white.
but in a world of "more is more" wisdom,
how can i be content with just freedom?

fleeting soul mate.(fleeting) soul mate.

you told me i was your soul mate. you trilled:
    your skin is soft, smooth, freshly fallen snow.
    your eyes pools of water so clear, distilled.
    your lithe form i will shield from ev'ry foe.

then i got glasses. annoyed, you mumbled:
    shutting me out from your soul? how unfair.

then, a car crash. skin scarred, beauty humbled,
forever confined to my new wheelchair.

when you saw me again, you reeled away.
then you visited...with her, who walked - strolled.
    realized you aren't my soul mate, 'kay?
y

i can't have a heart?mommy bird pokes me,
   "it's time to f l y."

i nod. i know i must
   but. but. butbutbutbut
   how can i leave.

this is home.

( they say  h o m e
      is where the  h e a r t  is

  and yet they say i cannot
      stay  h o m e
      forever

  do they mean, then
      that i
           can't.

winter day.winter day.
a series of lonely winter haikus.

              ... dull gray winter dawn.
        s t r e t c h  in blanket tundra;  find
                                        too much elbow r o o m  .

               d  r

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writer's block.by ~patronus4000

Literature / Poetry / General Poetry / Visual & Found Poetry

©2009-2013 ~patronus4000

June 2009.

This concrete poem was created for my Writer's Craft summative assignment. I was working on a "square" concrete poem (which, well, was about being "square"), but I couldn't come up with what to write halfway through. So, the square went 3D, and this was born.

Collaborative effort between Notepad, Adobe InDesign and Acrobat Reader, and the GIMP.

[ EDIT | 15aug2009 ]: Wow, thank you everyone so much for reading this poem and adding it to your collections/favourites. I will try to get to every comment, because I appreciate them all, but it might take a while for me to get to them. I'm not sure if I'm able to get to thank you all individually for +fav-ing this, but please know that you have my deepest gratitude. <3

[ EDIT | 19aug2009 ]: O.O THANK YOU FOR THE DAILY DEVIATION! -faints- icantbelieveigotadailydeviationwhileiwasinactivehere(nowijustfeelbadforbeingawaysolong>.<) Thank you. I still can't believe this piece has touched so many people.

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!nounouisawesome Feb 27, 2013 New member

awesome super cool.

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~Fb-PHE13 Feb 17, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

I love this!

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Mood: Love

~RenosGirl77 Feb 10, 2013 Hobbyist Writer

This is me right now. -_- Please, somebody, get me a sledgehammer!! (No offence meant at all to your awesomesauce artwork)

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~Cladies Jan 24, 2013

writer's block: a disease that can only be cured by inspiration.

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~Grandtheftautumn5 Oct 27, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

To think the most arcane evil . . is a square.

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~Tenskwatawa Sep 27, 2012

Very clever, I shall carry this image around in one of my mental pockets and think of it fondly each time I run into lexical wall!

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~summersun4235 Sep 17, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

Writer's block SUCKS!! I'm always so lost when I cannot write anything ._.

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~1redgirl1 Aug 3, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

Currently, this is me

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~carriebailey Jun 30, 2012

Let me know if it's alright that I've shown your work on my low traffic blog with credit: [link]

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~Deikus-is-hellbound May 8, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

hope you dont mind, i used this in a paper. I credited you o:

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