Bibliophile Poems - Poems about Bibliophile

Irrational exuberance at respite from reading

...Irrational exuberance at respite from reading...

(on a rainy May thirteenth
two thousand and twenty five)
as a balm against ennui
becoming engrossed, immersed,
and lost in space of orrery
reg...

Printrovert

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I guess I am prejudiced by its age
I look forward to the turning of each page
I do judge a book by its cover
It completes me more than any lover
The journeys I am on
As I sail or I trail...

A Silent Warrior

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Written: June 10, 2024, For Eve Roper Contest

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1/ The eldest son of a family immigrated to the United States.
2/ I'm a bibliophile. I ...

I'll have Philes with that - First Draft

...My son is an ophidiophile, a lover of snakes 
I am a limnophile, a lover of lakes
and a bit of a wordsmith, for I love to write
quite often a nyctophile, because I love the night
I also love the ...

Our Own Fairytale

...It is amazing…oftentimes to our wonder and delight…sometimes to our dismay
how we are the authors of our fairytales…the protagonists in our play.

How ‘neath the different colors of our covers…
w...

Vivacious Bookworm

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Virile bibliophile -
Volumes, his vaunted prey -
Vibrant and versatile.
Voracious in a way, 
Vastly varied in style.
Versed quite literary, 
Vermin literally. 

May 6, 2021...

The Bibliophile

...He was known for a puzzling idée fixe
for literature in an array of topics;
Not a citizen of particular themes.
Given to a pursuit of this literary ENTERPRISE,
he would hermit away and ravenously...

All That I Am

...Human, I am...
with a nagging existential curiosity 
about people, nature, and life in general. 
A spiritual being, I am...
I indulge in woolgatherings and strolls.
A poet, I am... 
I'm always ...

The Bibliophile

...What can I say about them –
Those treasures that have passed through my hands
Imparting their wisdom, their sorrow, their joy to me
Through the words that were so painstakingly put to paper
And t...

The Bibliophile

...The Bibliophile

She works a nine-hour day
Has a couple wines on the way home
And maybe dances with her friends
Then she goes home to an empty house
No family or pets
No friends, roommates or ...

Termite Jill

...(Dedicated to all booklovers who have lost their loved ones to the scourge of the termite hordes - I did)

I thought I was a bibliophile
and indulged in pedantic boasts
I'd speak of ancient tomes...

That Devious Rogue

...Livid I was when that nincompoop
stained that page of my book
with tomato sauce, while eating
oh! How horrible! How horrible!
It was just a little dot but still;
definitely not easy to tolerate,...

Fears

...Walking up to the circulation desk,
books in one hand
library card in the other
Sliding books across the shiny, marble counter top
to the woman, who stands tall on the other side
with her mother-of-p...

Portrait of a Bibliophile

...Portrait of a Bibliophile


Be it time of photosynthesis or lunar luminescence, 
Diligently the boy pores over his book-
Sunshine or moonshine,
He is not arsine
To de-book himself.

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