Best Close At Hand Poems

I was an accomplished librarian, who took pleasure from written words,
As opera singers find their pleasure, in the halls where music is heard.

I was well...

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To find a poem, stay close to home,  no need for magic, nor cause to roam
If closing eyes and knowing this...the wonders of poetic...

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Slowly he opened the drawer and looked inside.  Some time had passed since he last gazed upon the cloth that lay there.  Years...

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I step into the temple
in search of painted dreams
Figures wrapped in irresistible shine 
they come to life within their fresco prisons
A kaleidoscope of painted saints
powerless...

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The colors of the season
are flaming orange, russet, gold and red.
From what kindling was
this glorious, bright explosion fed?

Is there some tinderbox
in Mother Nature’s fall collection
from...

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The Book

How good the night that darkens so
To guide me to my rest.
Where a favored Book lights up my eyes
As I nestle to my nest.

A...

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Moonlight

Embracing close climbing Rose
A silver suitor to propose
 Marriage in the moonlight.

Rose now wears his sparkling ring
Gazing, enchanted, beautiful bling –
 Diamonds of moonbeams.

Stars of...

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you’re nameless and faceless
some shun you, claiming your existence is baseless 

you’ve been with me right from the start,
always together, never apart

you’ve spoken to me...

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O precious codex, how lovely thou art to me.
          How do I pay homage to thee?
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Melding thoughts.. A guiding force;
Showed strength through sharing Ways, 
drew spirit, from the great One, following the wind,
finding a hollow,  gliding the currents stringing...

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Have you ever squeezed a lemon before?
(you very might well have and just not realized it).
Each time you grab the steering wheel, you feel determined:
There's...

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On the pathway to the flames of hell, I stand; 
in inky blackness of night, 
with giggles of demons sounding close at hand. 

I march...

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You lifted me from the shelf
Looked at my cover
Made a judgment on what was inside
Decided to spend some time

You explored my thoughts
Flipped through my pages
Bent...

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When my road of life is tiring
I know your close at hand
When at the cross roads of the journey
By me you will always stand

From the...

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Here stood a tree, I remember it well...upon the top of look-out hill,
it swayed and danced of dreams untold and traced the sky of love...

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