Across the paper, the pen trips <br />Squiggles and curves shaping words <br />Characters of good and bad <br />Expressions of happiness and sad <br />Puppets on a clean white page <br />Toil the roles they might play <br />Groomed for stardom someday <br />Through the roles they might play <br /> <br />These are everyday toils and hustles <br />Doing the best like puzzles <br />Expressing thoughts and ideas <br />Humbly forgetting the past <br />Roles they play, bewilders someday <br />A satisfaction they hope <br />Can be...of piece of slope <br /> <br />Performers of persuasive prose <br />When placed upon a page in rows <br />Withstanding the test of time <br />Conscious style or rhythmic rhyme <br />Imagination holds no bound <br />And destinations can be found <br />Building blocks standing tall <br />Across the paper the pen falls<br /><br />JoJo Bean, Dodgy Dave and Meggie Gultiano<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/across-the-paper/
