Best My Book Poems

A book of poems
with my name on it
is my ambition, someday.
A book of poems
with my name on it,
with something, inside, to say.
Not a big book, not thick, not mushy --
not that kind of book for me.
My book must be lean, must be spare --
though pithy...

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Hi everybody.  I just posted a blog about finally getting my book published.
It has 176 pages and it titled it  "POLISHED STONES".  I designed the cover which is dark red with a silver ribbon around the edge and it looks just amazing...

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Sitting on a shelf amid a thousand others
 the spine, raggedy and hard to read
 pulled it out---top, dust covered
 I am drawn to it.
Old book

 Written so long ago, the pages
 seemed fragile in my hands
 it wanted my attention,
 I too want to...

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He paced the living room, furious with himself. What had he gotten himself into? Why had he agreed to Laila’s request to see her family? Here he was alone…all alone in the house with the only person in the whole world he had come to...

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A book of lists
is what I need
to absolve Earth's Tribes
of rampant greed.

Before and after lists,
being and becoming fists,
masculine and feminist mutual mentoring trists
of transliterative transubstantiation.

I would like to hug
a warm and fuzzy theology
with prophetic philosophical appeal
to aesthetic reasons and tastes
that both hunters and gatherers
might sing...

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Slipping into darkness, there is no personal fierceness against the logic of the heart, the inevitable force of the dying light, nor the finish of the soul surrender.
At last, the heart is over spilling with delightful rapture shouting out at the mountains of gloom....My time...

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From the pages of my book

From the pages of my book 
I learnt there are opportunities more
Selection among them remained my courage
Whether to jump from heaven for score
Down in the earth to explore gems and 
For conquering love of country and country men


I dug out...

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Oh book, I love you, there's so many stories you can tell,                                 ...

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I am proud to announce my fiction book Alisa's New Life is now on sale through Publish 
America, Amazon.com, Barns and Noble and other online book stores. 
My pen name is Linda Bates.  

The story is about 5 children that are abandoned by an...

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there are so many, Faces with Books
there are so many books with faces 
that they would not tell you  
whose idea it was 
in the first place...

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Nobody will survive
 in this world for ever 
Oneday I have to go silently
Then you have to follow me only…

One day your black hair 
will turn into grey
Black pupils of your eyes 
will become turbid
Tight and smooth skin 
will become loose and lax….

Nobody will survive...

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My book is fine
It’s okay to write one time
I am working on it every time
I have the happy working time 
Taking care the lines of mind
I give my ideas
I am making myself laugh
I know that is not good enough 
Yes, for the easy read to...

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A golden rain tree caught my eye,
in a book of trees I planned to buy.
I imagined when summer time came,
floating yellow flower petals,
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Book-engagement to me is indeed a God-granted privilege…
Exposing me, through printed words, to realities I acknowledge
Imparting knowledge and wisdom since pre-school to post-college
Delighting my educational journey’s mileage!

Children’s books on alphabets, numbers, shapes --- my academic foundation
Atlases, encyclopedia, general references ushered me to diverse civilization
School literature...

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Facing reality to night and I
Don’t like what I see
A man setting on a big throne
With his eyes pointed at me.
So many people standing around with
Their heads hanging low
I’m afraid what the Lord may say
So in my heart I must go
I tried to hide behind...

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