Best Reader Poems

A reader of the stars am I. I’ve looked
into my crystal ball. Guess what I saw?
The woman of your dreams! You will be hooked
because her charms will fill your heart with awe.
A female with green eyes and princess ways,
she also has a bit of gypsy...

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Are you educated?
Have you injured heart?
Have you purified brain?
Do you believe in truth?
Are you alone?
Do you seek problematic truth, solvable truth, real magic?
Are you a secular person?
Do you believe in democracy?

If your answers are YES...

You have poetic mind.
You are the reader of poetry.
You are the...

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I feel your words upon me
As they race across the page.
A running sense of wonder
Even late upon this age.

The whisper flips of paper
As the pages burn and turn,
Setting me afire...
It seems I never learn.

The secrets whispered to me
As I pause and try to hear,
Are echo...

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Reader Rabbit

Toward the end of a book,
we tend to speed up, 
in anticipation of the climatic finish. 

Yet sadly, 
the build-up...
was the part we savored, 
on the perfect path
to the right...
final, 
and everlasting
word(s).

The beginning....

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C-onnotation
L-ets
A-crostic
I-mplement
R-ighteous
E-xpression

A-s
G-reat
R-eader
A-llows
A-wesome
N-ame

Topic: Birthday of Claire Agraan (June 28) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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I look for you in the stars,
and in the streets,
and all the people I greet.
I look for you in books of poetry.

Such a place to find,
yet unaware that I'm
lost, like a button. 

Arrive home from work to flip through pages
of a book I knew as...

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Begin with something positive;
no need to start out negative.
A writer needs encouragement;
it feeds their ego nourishment.
And what is strong about the piece?
Is there a spot that needs some grease?
Or did it flow like brooks in spring?
Is there a line that really rings?
Can you suggest some...

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I don’t write for other poets,
God condemn me if I do

My words all gifted freely,
to those searching hard and true

I don’t write for academics,
as they archive others thoughts

I write for that one reader
—whose emotions can’t be bought

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)...

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A-nother
B-irthday
E-xpression
G-ladly
A-pplies
I-nspiring
L-ines

R-ightfully
I-mplementing
C-omposition
A-s
F-riendly
R-eader
E-njoys
N-atal
T-heme's
E-uphoria

Topic: Birthday of Abegail M. Ricafrente (November 28) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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I see an apple.
There it is....

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FILL-INS
An invitation for
the reader to use
imagination

Who?      What?
two fine ladies rest
neath a bamboo
umbrella
they talk of a
third?

Fishermen
small boat at anchor
two men mend her
tattered sail
weather      or old
age?

Pretty Song
on the dogwood
branches
scarlet tanager and
mate
what song do they
sing?

New York blizzard
snowy avenue
many...

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I hold the rainbow and an arrow, for you, my reader;
The thrill of good  tomorrow for you, my reader;

The butterfly of happiness will fly from our book
To find a reason and a certitude, for you, my reader;

You don`t remember this verse I took 
In...

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Take a moment of your time
And listen to your heart’s insight
Think about what you should write
Will it be personal or fictional?

Should your poem begin with a rhyme
Or should free verse be your style?
I doubt you’ll discover the best the first time
But you can be sure...

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Writers love their letters,
letters turn into words.
Words turn into sentences,
waiting to be read.

Poems come from writing,
writing about the past.
Maybe from the present,
maybe true or false.

As a faithful reader,
we laugh we cry.
Many love to read,
yet again and again.

The reader and writer,
then become as one.
Both in love...

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Warm, whimsical words surround me
Guiding me through the field of nouns
Shedding light on the beauty of a verb
Embracing me with the creation of verses
~
Brilliants hues capture a bold stanza
Reflecting a dance of whimsy and creativity
Flowing with echoes of flourishing humility
Amid warm whispers of adverbs and...

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