Best Shelves Poems

My book shelves are lined with gold
But not the kind you might think
No, the gold I speak of is much more valuable
It is made of paper and inks of many colors
It represents the efforts of countless writers
Some known to me, others unknown to me
All of...

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Apocryphal embellishments of

a non-canonical secret society,

teeming amidst a dubious 

enterprising authenticity, 

exposure's excessed stormy decay of 

  tormented poet's crushing blows,

ego's wild oats fruitlessly sown

rampaged rush to save their own flesh,

poesy's wildflower blooms wilted

under acid rein's torridity of seduction,

hence poetry's infertile demise unto 

dusty...

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deck the shelves laid bare
with Merry Christmas decor —
moments to present

12/3/2018...

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Broken toys 
hopeless dreams
shattered snow globes
ripping seams

Empty lockets
burnt out lights
rusting metal
flightless kites 

Here on these shelves,
a small corner of our hearts,
sit the unwanted items
and the lonely broken parts,

But, to make room for  more
these shelves are to be clean
maybe we can fill them,
with the pleasant...

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Here is an introduction to my poem:

Senator Cruz of Texas was using the 
word cogent in the news recently. 
People are taking pictures of themselves 
and calling them selfies. I combined
these two items together and wrote
this poem. Here goes.

Around for a while we all would...

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House With Shelves

An interested person is one who delves,
Into buying a house with many shelves;
For us to live in;
Long time been;
We owned after being built by ourselves.

Jim Horn...

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Christmas had come and gone,
Once again alone,

The Christmas tree stood tall,
Simply adored by all.

Many decorations on the shelves,
Packed by the elves,

Values and bargains galore,
Purchased at the store.

Days of Christmas shopping complete for another year,
Enjoying the days and nights that are dear.

Celebrations with relatives and friends,
Days...

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A rainy day, is the perfect time
To escape for a while, to a place that is all mine
Above my head, A rocky sky
Imbedded in it, are florescent lights

Row upon row, in front of me
Are shelve of books, as far as I can see
Mystery, romance, Sci-Fi,...

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I climb shelves
Looking for the right pair
And squeezing two between
He closed me amid the wreckage
The moving metal skims my bones
Jumping from the scene,
My ankles break for you
My heart leaps for you
My body is crushed for you...

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things seen on book shelves
they are always interesting
part of person's life

on books we will prey
with Meacham went all the way
just like LBJ

while in pool we splashed
after we would become smashed
then in our beds crashed

weather cold or warm
when they would raise a big storm
mob began to...

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in a used books store
tomes of recorded history 
line up on dusty shelves

"Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
                     ...

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The shelves are packed
Not an empty gap in sight
The books are dusty

Men and women lie in the books
But the books are dusty...

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We wear masks there is no doubt
thinking others could not abide
seeing us with ourselves let out
where warts and wounds reside.

Thus we are known but from afar
shame-stricken of our very being.
Fearful of leaving our egos ajar,
is that what others are believing?

Might they not assume us brave
to...

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She went searching for peace at the grocery store.
Those shelves were all empty, her people at war.
There were loaves of loss and heartbreak over by the bread.
"We have a sale on hatred," the store manager said.
She found boxes of empathy mixed in with the teas...

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The world shrank
Into clusters of words
Into remote silence
Into piles of bulky pages
All stood neatly and politely on selves
Waiting and serving their admirers 
Suddenly the internet broke in one day
And conquered them 
But they remained silence 
Still hoping for their old friends 
To drop in one...

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