Best Shelf Poems

She sneaked into the pantry, tender steps came from behind 
His charismatic twinkle took her heart completely by surprise
And in a speck of time, a secret kiss to follow
As fate joined them together, forever in tomorrow

Through the years she won't forget the day he called...

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There once was a bear
Who was loved for his shoes 
To a girl he was gifted
Just her cuddly muse

On a once rainy day
With a shelter required
The brolly was shaken
To it's cover retired

Then a browse through the store
With her eyes shining bright
The gloss of his footwear
Caught...

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He made me ponder my greatest fear
not ghosts nor goblins grinning ear to ear
The one that I really fear most 
is the one peering back from the mirror
Is he real or will he just disappear 
Will anyone remember he was ever here

That person I present
the...

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I've been sitting up here day after day and months on end, and please, let's not talk about years. I watch you stare at me when you think I'm unaware. I see you vacillate between life's mundane and the big, beautiful me, and oh, how...

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I was going to write a sad poem
But my nephew shot himself
So I'll guess I'll wait 'til later
And I put it on the shelf

I finally took it down today
But before I started to write
I got a call from a friend of mine
His daughter died last...

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Acorn
By the side of the road

Abandoned 

Bird's nest
In the middle of the road

Each with a story,
They draw my eye to them

Home I furnish for them

........Together

On my shelf...

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This poem is not about me
but then my shelf is not a shelf but a tree,
so read on and then you will see.

I once knew an old Mole
who did not like living in a hole.

He was so scared of the dark
came up through the ground...

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The last of my tomatoes are in a basket
I keep in the corner of my kitchen shelf.
I can’t remember when I picked them
But there are much too many to eat myself.

All summer long the crop was good -
Each vine strained hard against its stake.
There was...

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Upon the Shelf
by
Kevin L Fairbrother


I spied it sitting on the shelf
A pretty shape and so smooth
It set my pulses racing
And my eyes bulged in my head
…

I picked it up with gentle touch
And caressed the smooth skin
My fingers explored the bottom
Then ran up to the head
…

I...

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There was a man from Thomaston
Of real good vision he had none
Glasses weren't any help
They sat upon the shelf
From his surgery he's left stunned 

My husband has had cataract surgery this week..
He says that he can't see any better out of the eye
upon which he...

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A lazy long-haired packer in a shop,
Lent against a wall to have a quiet stop,
He felt a scraping on his crown
Waking from his nap upside down,
Someone was using his head as a mop....

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What a world we have traveled through....
All our steps, long ones ,but are you sure
you stepped too....
We dust off our dresser and move the frames
to see our self....
I know where I've been and what I've done but
you ended up just a snow globe on a...

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Armless doll
 Thrown in Fate's trash 
 Her heart still beating......

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The price was worth it, so it seemed;
It was right and not a penny more.
Here the clock will sit, here it will count               
Its days - round and round its hands
Will...

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I lost me mind. I lost me mind. I left it on the shelf.
When I came back me mind to find,
twas taken by an elf....

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