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A collaboration with Dear Heart and Jack Horne
The first 10 lines are Dear Heart and the next 10 lines are Jack Horne
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My library has grown and grown,
so many- my shelves groan;
there are more books than I can ever read,
but they keep coming like a need.
There are tilting piles of books along walls,
accumulated in time both the big- and smalls;
books, books on each table . . .
to read I will be unable.
I can hear them - whispering to me their story;
a thousand doors into love, fury and glory . . .
I wander up and down each row,
so much- I want to know;
I smile at books I've read before and some,
are children's books I'd read with mom.
I spot a naughty tale intended to arouse,
and blushing, put it back- continue with my browse;
from cars, to crime, to birds . . .
each shelf is packed with learned words.
I'd like to read each one- too much for me to see;
I'd need to reach the year three thousand ninety-three !
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October 16, 2019
Poetry/Rhyme/A Thousand Books to Read
Copyright Protected, ID 19-1189-034-02
All Rights Reserved. Written under Pseudonym.
Co-writer, Jack Horne
Written for the contest, Introduction by Collaboration
sponsor, Silent One
First Place
Copyright © Constance La France | Year Posted 2019
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