Best Books Poems
Below are the all-time best Books poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of books poems written by PoetrySoup members
BooksThey stand, silently,
shoulder to shoulder, upright,
save one at the end, leather bound
who slouches, James Dean fashion.
Six with blue covers, gold blocked,
uniform, like Trumpton Firemen.
All wear...
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Categories:
books,
Form:
Free verse
Dusty Old BooksA book that I plucked
from an antiquity of books
filled my nostrils
with a smell that I will always know
and always love.
This love cannot be explained,
but neither...
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Categories:
books, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Like a BookHe read her like a book
as her wistful words poured forth
from deep within the pages
of her tender seeking soul.
He lay mesmerized
as her paragraphs...
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Categories:
books, love, sensual, simile,
Form:
Free verse
Adrift In FictionPlacid rain gently kisses unblemished windows
as leaves fall in an Autumn breeze.
In the distance cinereal clouds congregate,
converging upon the city's royal citadel.
Oblivious to the storm,...
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Categories:
analogy, appreciation, books,
Form:
Prose
Simple Words For Simple PeopleIf I had a pretentious brain
which acts faster than my heart
Maybe then,I would abhore this soul
which spreads freely through each verse
Maybe then I would...
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Categories:
analogy, beach, beautiful, books,
Form:
Prose
I LoveI Love . . .
to snuggle in my bed, no one around,
the purring of my cat the only sound.
And whether near a window streaming light
or...
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Categories:
books,
Form:
Rhyme
Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's LibraryToddlers' Exploration:
Cardboard drum and a thunderous beast
With playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide to dreams just out of reach
Soaring through tales...
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Categories:
adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form:
Narrative
Midnight In the LibraryAround midnight, in the library I found myself drawn,
to these shelves haunted still by Poe, Stevenson and King,
as a rare, late October storm brews beyond...
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Categories:
books, night, october, repetition,
Form:
Pantoum
Rebel In the LibraryIn the library, at last I am freed
from others’ wishes for what I should read.
Book after book I most gladly peruse
with all these free hours...
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Categories:
books,
Form:
Rondeau
Agatha Christie Taught Me To Be a Book WormBehind a chair
Below a desk
with my bare feet on a wall, in my flannel pajama...
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Categories:
books,
Form:
Free verse
A Nook and a StorybookOh, give me a nook and a storybook
there at my mother’s knee.
Or tucked in bed, a pillow at my head
as father reads to me.
To hear...
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Categories:
books, cute, memory,
Form:
Quatrain
The Cold of Winters How Can My Words PerceiveThe many winters I had seen
When once I was a teen
Gathered inside our small living room
Joy and simplicity our faces illume
Warm with laughter at...
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Categories:
age, blessing, books, family,
Form:
Rhyme
A Book(PoetrySoup Format)
. . . To be precisely placed ‘pon your shelf:
between, “Great Expectations and “Gone with the Wind,”
a best seller, “The Notebook, against the...
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Categories:
books, longing, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Tanka 1 About Smudged RosesNow published at tankajournal.com
Inspired by Chris'tanka contest ~Now, for the contest :)...
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Categories:
absence, books, break up,
Form:
Tanka
A Nook and a StorybookWhile resting in my nook, breaths grip
As lampshade marks edges of leaves;
That I wander into the scene
On pages afloat, a tale weaves .
Listening to...
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Categories:
books, imagination,
Form:
Quatrain