Bookends Poems - Poems about Bookends

Bookends gently, clasp a saga with many ‘In the Beginning’s and ‘The End's aligned as read, or in order tall in center, at ends, with short ones stuffed between estranged, deranged bedfellows of genres compelled to collude. ...

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Weekends are a little like Bookends They stop you falling Or lolling too far over So you don't appear untidy or At least not so Uncomfortable They keep you straight Give you Purpose Show you in your best Posture Vertical spine Keeps you looking fine Without life's bookends We just become Untidy Unrested and sometimes Unread What a shame When people stay closed So thank you Weekends For keeping us Perky and In good order Perhaps an enthusiast will Choose...

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They are both signed. Ladies and gentlemen We have a mainevent. World tag champions Defend against, number one ranked " Fistcottio" But before the do, "Fistcottio" Splits and face one another Both men carrying a mask the loser changes his name and wears his partners choose of attire.Fistcottio Caul Themes and Dawson Meets square off One on one if Meetes win , his Partner will be known as Masked Superia....

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As I knew no living grandparents, I’ve been a grandson to none. But I have been a son, a god son, a younger brother, an older brother, A nephew, a cousin, an uncle, A grand uncle, a great grand uncle, A husband twice espoused, A son-in-law, a brother-in-law, A father, a god father, a stepfather, A father-in-law, And an...

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Where were you so long ago? All those eons before a tot. In some distant god’s château? No. Not there. You were not. On a shelf of surplus stock, A soul dressed up in heavenly frock. Perhaps a spirit not yet wrought, No. Not there. You were not. Then began your book of life, It’s made in volumes three. The past, the present, --- the...

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Bookends of a dream —the beginning and ending of tomorrow (Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)...

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Bookends prop to order and bring to attention a rampant, bedraggled rabble of books, to parade upright and aligned. Big and fat, tall and thin, ditty, witty, flitty and ponderous tomes all squashed in, buttressed. Books do well without bookends But bookends topple over without books to hold. A parasitic dependency like ticks, lice and bookworms. Bookends lie, at both the beginnings...

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The very first words of the Ten Commandments are: “I am”. What could be more definite? God exists, And, thereby, the entire universe came into being. The ‘big question’ is answered, We exist in a world that was created for a purpose. What is that purpose? Read on, dear friends. The very last words of the Ten Commandments are: “your neighbor”....

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BOOKENDS OF FAITH The beginning is here,the age is fulfilled the kingdom is nigh,give the Good News a try, turn back to God. Look,He stands at the door and knocks. if anyone hears this voice and opens the door, He will come in,bringing forgiveness for sin. And thus, Jesus was sent,as we are too, you and me,one and all to witness and proclaim this call...

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Evil’s Bookends Sept 8, 2001, 7:30PM The limo arrives the concierge opens the doors to a clear cool night in the city, a first Broadway Play. A cell phone call, a Playbill tucked between a broken pencil and a pair of bifocals. Sept 12, 2001, 10:35AM Sirens blare amid grey-white ash. A cell phone rings, torn Playbill flaps. Broken pencil, sightless glasses, crushed in the grip of mindless madness. 9/30/2014 Submitted for Craig Cornish Chopped...

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