Best Chapbook Poems

To enhance our book’s creation,
we sought your permission
for your poem’s transformation
to a condensed composition.

Not entirely acquiescent
to our last minute request;
you gave your consent
with tongue-in-cheek protest.

There were other Poets
whose heart-prints were cropped.
It’s painful, we know it,
to have feelings lopped.

Your reply touched our hearts
and our funny-bones too;
We...

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Hi all, I just wanted to introduce my newly edited and compiled Poetry Chapbook. It is free and released into the Public Domain, and includes new works set to paintings.

A perfect little book for delightful leisurely reads. Print out a poem set to art and...

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Don’t waste the magic children have.
They cry out in consternation at each new sensation
As though bludgeoned once again by feelings earned in another life.

Wail!
Oh, wail!
          The pliable face….
        ...

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I submitted a chapbook;
a competition,
paid my twenty-five dollars
and waited.
All I got was an e-mailed receipt.
I had to go on-line to see –

no mention.

That was years ago
but I now mention it
for most of those unripe words
have now turned to wine
and sometimes they are 
good enough to...

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