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Best Book By Its Cover Poems

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Don'T Judge a Book By Its Cover
Don't judge a book by it's cover

The meaning of this is people are different than one another,

You can't assume by looking at a person who...

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Categories: book by its cover, beautiful, happiness, judgement, people,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Boy With the Freckles
I was enjoying my time in the sandbox
When a redhead with freckles climbed in.
The glint in his eyes left no question,
His mission was ruin and...

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Categories: book by its cover, bullying, childhood, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Courting the Sublime Significance of Nothingness
"Courting the Sublime Significance of Nothingness"



The blue lines ripple like waves
to the right side of the page
vacantly calm 

from the shallow depths 
of the ponderous...

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Categories: book by its cover, bullying, poets, symbolism, word
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bill Disney - Dizzy
If you ever drive through our small Oregon Town
You won't help but notice the house that's run down
A man called Bill Disney lived there for...

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Categories: book by its cover, death, fire, funeral,
Form: Rhyme
Black People
Thugs in the street with their pants hung low
White T's and Tims with two golds in the front row
Philly fades or braids, du-rags, and fitted...

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Categories: book by its cover, inspirational, life, people, social,
Form: Lyric



Cabinets of Wonder
Maybe we're all cabinets of wonder.
Maybe we all have cubbies and shelves.
Cubbies where we stash things,
And shelves where we display things.
Things we adore and things...

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Categories: book by its cover, cheer up, dream, happy,
Form: Free verse
Checked
I could cuss you out using all kind of bloody profanity,
that will cut you so deep,
it will enlighten you about your anatomy,
but the God in...

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Categories: book by its cover, people, social, urban, may,
Form: Free verse
You Want To and Can Write Poetry
Dear budding poet,

Regarding modern poetry this is a result of poets such as you redesigning forms of poetry written through the ages by different nationalities,...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: book by its cover, age, devotion, imagination, me,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Under the Cover
Under The Cover.
.
You can never ever
Tell a book by it’s cover
As I was later to discover
The Lady in the Nursing home
The old man across the...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: book by its cover, appreciation, caregiving, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Who You Are
You may be older, but that doesn't make you smarter.
You may be taller, but that doesn't make you stronger.
You may be prettier, but that doesn't...

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© Lara Chern  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: book by its cover, body, judgement,
Form: Free verse
God's Children
Next time you're walking down the street
Don't judge a person by their face or feet
Think of them as God's child like you
Now, how does that...

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© Jen H.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: book by its cover, child, child,
Form: Rhyme
That Was My Sin
It was to love deeply and unconditionally
It was not to compromise my well being
It was to regard any human being with fairness and equality

Never judge...

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Categories: book by its cover, africa, age, character,
Form: Free verse
Narcissistic Cliche
Living in a world that seems to judge
Lie, cheat and commit other horrid acts
Such as murder, rape and theft
I remember when people judged
The book by...

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Categories: book by its cover, sympathy, today, uplifting, vanity,
Form: I do not know?
Unfounded Love
I was blinded by love but can now begin to see 
that you are not all that I thought you to be 
As I look...

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Categories: book by its cover, love,
Form: Rhyme
Wicked
What would happen if there was no happily ever after?
Would the stories we love now still be passed on?

Or would we abandon their worlds because...

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Categories: book by its cover, deep, discrimination, identity,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things