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Best One For The Books Poems

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Premium Member Part One, From That Dark, Dark Abyss, the Long Black Curtain Rises
From That Dark, Dark Abyss, The Long Black Curtain Rises
 Third poet in my poet dedication series

Part One:
 
Curtain rises and we see as Raven's...

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Categories: one for the books, appreciation, art, dark, literature,
Form: Rhyme



All Over the Place
Goofy-
Go figure.
Wondering,
Numerous trips to Disneyland in childhood?
Now part of me,
Shake him off?
Gave up long ago.
My face is lifted in warped muse,
Monty Python,
Where did that all...

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Categories: one for the books, funny, imagination, life, mystery,
Form: I do not know?
Guy Montag
A man of no thoughts
Till he met a little girl
Who told him what she thought
And completely transformed his world
A burner of books
Without a thought in...

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Categories: one for the books, education, faith, loss, people,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Personality Can Supercede Looks
Anthony and his plain Jane wife Brooke
Met through the Internet, one for the books
All these years later
Their love's even greater
Which proves personality can supercede looks


©...

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Categories: one for the books, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Rocky Xii
My name's Rocky Balboa,
Some say I'm old as soil;
An' if you call me punchy,
My blood begins to boil!

Mickey's gone to heaven,
Apollo and Adrian too;
Now I'm...

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Categories: one for the books, funny, humor, sports,
Form: Quatrain



Martin Luther King Jr.
Reverend King, one of the most influential black leaders
To ever march for civil rights and justice
Was born to a minister and a teacher of school.
Educated...

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© Tom Zart  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one for the books, adventure, black african american,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Beware the Banning of Books and Speech
I’m not sure what’s happening in this country…sometimes I think it’s being overrun by fools…in some states they’re banning books…in my state, Florida, they’re banning...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one for the books, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Keep Singing Solomon
I tried to write a poem the way that Solomon wrote about his prize,
But you don’t seem to fit the mold you don’t have a...

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one for the books, funny, me,
Form: Light Verse
A Bee and a Cardiologist
A bee and a cardiologist 

I have patched it up with my cardiologist
I sent her one of my books and when I saw her apologised
For...

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Categories: one for the books, anti bullying, august,
Form: Sonnet
Can You Feel Me
Once I was working at a tourist place 
It was a hotel, restaurant and a conference center 
I saw some jewelry on the reception
I said...

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© Lucky Voco  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one for the books, dream,
Form: Free verse
In the Beginning There Was God
I started to write a poem about God and planet Earth on April 14th 20126. I thought a short poem I'd write, alas I did...

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Categories: one for the books, appreciation, creation, education, freedom,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Why Most Chickens Don'T Snore
Could there possibly be a single topic
I haven't as yet explored
The love life of the lowly earthworm
Or why most chickens don't snore

And have you ever...

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Categories: one for the books, silly,
Form: Quatrain
Symbols and Mystery
The Holy Bible with it's symbols and are filled with mysteries.
The Holy Scriptures are were our way is found; our history.
The council long ago with...

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Categories: one for the books, faith, books, time, bible,
Form: Rhyme
It Late and Oh I Can Not Fall a Sleep
it late and oh I can not fall a sleep

it 2  o'clock in the morning

today I should not of took that nap

oh but it...

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Categories: one for the books, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Sleuth Self-Made
Two sisters have enlisted me
to solve for them a mystery.

Sounds and music they can sometimes hear,
and from their manor things then disappear.

What’s happening? Is there...

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Categories: one for the books, mystery,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs