UNPRETENTIOUS PENCIL
Pencils peering out
waiting patiently for
their purpose, or a
person’s poppycock to
not so pleasingly pour
out… But wait there’s more,
those indescribable
words winding off their points,
even poppycock might
please an unpretentious
pencil. And still more…
The sketch that dances off
the tip, sends the tool
into a tizzy for
an eternity, till…
Exhausted, pencil
rests, catches breath, and waits
again patiently,
with fellow pencils to
be discovered once more…
© 2016 Michelle Kogan. All rights reserved.
My poem is from the ditty challenge proposed by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater , on Michelle Heidenrich Barnes Blog, Today’s Little Ditty: The challenge was to write about something small, an animal or object that we see everyday but “don’t give much thought to.”
Michelle Kogan Illustration, Painting, & Writing 