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Best Closed Book Poems

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Premium Member Trust No One
~My Heart~

•      One last night before the grave
•	Thousands of thoughts of you I save
•	-Every night, I experience the same dream
•	That...

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Categories: closed book, body, confusion, corruption, courage,
Form: Epic



Flashback To Present
The continuous memories scattered inside my mind
All the laughter and loving scenes are left behind
Leaving a life of bad possibilities where I came from
Never getting...

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Categories: closed book, childhood, conflict, emotions, family,
Form: Quatrain
Truth of Luck
"THE whole truth and nothing but the truth"


I have never failed or cheated, on any test I took.
Though I have taken best guesses upon one...

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Categories: closed book, education, life, philosophy, social,
Form: Couplet
'you'
You. From out of the blue a dream come true, every since
your debut my life flourishes anew.

When I first caught your eye my heart became...

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Categories: closed book, beautiful, best friend, confidence,
Form: I do not know?
Word
The word, 'word', is more than just a mere word. 
"The play of words is absolutely beautiful." They say,
but little do they know that the...

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Categories: closed book, books, word play, words,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Arent You Glad You Stayed In School
Do you recall being in school?
Learning many lessons;
obeying all of the rules;
absorbing each lecture and each page
of your textbook;
adding to your storehouse of wisdom.

If you...

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Categories: closed book, books, education, homework, literature,
Form: Sestina
I
 I.

A staircase of dreams aligned in a nimble mind.
A specimen-proof of evolution to man-kind.

A closed book
Cohabilitated hindrance
Uneasy, complicated.
Same words of different significance.

You can never...

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Categories: closed book, birth, character, hip hop,
Form: Classicism
Love Will Find It's Way
Love will always find it's way
 

     My mother would like to say,
     as long as your...

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© Ivy Vresk  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: closed book, devotion, love, mother daughter,
Form: I do not know?
Why Buy
I know someone who buys books.
I also know where else he looks.
The books he buys remain closed.
The stuff he gets is hardly used.
A book is...

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© Omar Jabak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: closed book, books, car, clothes, house,
Form: Sonnet
Soul Rich
I've got love for the small few who stayed when I was at my lowest
My heart's been broken and damaged so many times
I try to...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: closed book, courage, deep, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
The True Meaning of Beauty
I look in the mirror
and judge what I see
I stare at the outside
and assume that it's me

I wish to be different
to change how I look
but...

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Categories: closed book, beauty, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Is It Not
Yellow is the color of the sun,
is it not?

It’s the same color as the Asian
valet corporate fella,
holding a Salvation Army red pot
Collecting inflated IPO fees...

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Categories: closed book, spiritual, truth, visionary, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Odds and Ends
Lone in the nightmare of the day I dream
And go beyond its comforting stream
Around hopes fountain I phantomly sit
Confused yet happy at a dramatic skit

Wafting...

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© Kofi Amed   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: closed book, absence, deep, emotions, fear,
Form: Free verse
Haunting Me
By night I write in silence
like the quiet checkered board in the corner of my room
violently erupting my dimensional thoughts.
It haunts the hours I am...

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Categories: closed book, people
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Beautiful Mystery of Me
I am a woman of deep mystery,
a riddle and a puzzle-  a closed book;
my life a tangled path of history,
from my lowered beautiful eyes...

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Categories: closed book, mystery,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs