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Best Library Poems

Below are the all-time best Library poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of library poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The Library of Trust and Hope
The Library of Trust and Hope
The Bank of Trust and Hope

(Cant decide on title, so feel free to pick or suggest one)

She was all but...

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Categories: library, analogy, garden, growth, happiness,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles...

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Categories: library, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Midnight In the Library
Around 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: library, books, night, october, repetition,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Rebel In the Library
In 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: library, books,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member High At the Library
Whenever I walk inside I feel at home;
enraptured, from shelf to shelf I roam
till a book catches my eye
as I flitter by
smell sends me
high
rapidly
while senses...

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Categories: library, books,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Thinking Out Loud
~writer's notes~

i think out loud
from my fingers to a keyboard 
so forgive me if my speak
is somewhat long winded
if it has swirls and curls
this is...

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Categories: library, angel, beauty, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Dreamscapes An Education In the Mind
Dream schemes play across the screen
And third eye examines them,
Ever so closely; tonight,
Another etheric flight;
Will show me new horizons
And the beings that dwell there;
The archetypes...

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Categories: library, appreciation, dream, education, encouraging,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
My Eyes
My eyes,
you traced the beauty of nature.
The starry sky and inky ocean,
smile of winter in the heavenly garden,
dancing of waterfall on the lap of hill
and...

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Categories: library, father, mother, wife, ,
Form: Light Verse
The Scent of Your Soul
The scent of your soul

a caramalized breeze of fruit odours

reverbrating softly through my memory

Throwing me right back in ninth grade 

where we sat side by...

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Categories: library, absence, love,
Form: Free verse
The Scent of Your Soul
The scent of your soul
a caramelized breeze of fruit odours
reverberating softly through my memory
Throwing me right back into ninth grade
where we sat side by side
Your...

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Categories: library, absence, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Plucked Violin--- Memories
This is too complex; i mean the throbbing  wound 
grating my belly on a dappled day, a day 
breathing of tender winds and violins....

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Categories: library, i miss you, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
The Scent of Your Soul
The scent of your soul

A caramelised breeze of fruit odours

reverberating  softly through my memory

Throwing me right back in ninth grade

where we sat side by...

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Categories: library, absence, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Touched the Wall Today (The Vietnam Memorial Wall)
Emotions flooded my very soul as I viewed that Sacred Wall.
Etched for all eternity are hero's names who sacrificed their all.
I sensed that I was...

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Categories: library, hopeprayer, may, , memorial,
Form: Rhyme
The Gift From Prison
On a pleasant Sunday morning,
beside a river in a park,
I went strolling in the city,
in the dawn just after dark.
Every bench; any haven,
slept a host...

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Categories: library, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Hero Code: Decoded
Enthralled by each panel, a world in my grasp,
Comic books whisked me beyond time's clasp.
Starlight's soft shimmer, on planets unknown,
Myths spun with heroes, on quests...

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Categories: library, hero, imagination, literature, youth,
Form: Narrative

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