Always Tell A StoryEverywhere I get to
No matter where it is
There are stories
Some are told loudly
Screamed from the mountaintop
Some are whispered
Barely spoken and barely heard
A few are lost to time
Never told or talked about
Every one of them is worth knowing
And being shared when it is possible
The good thing is if you do share one
It will never be...
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Categories:
books,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
birthday, books, celebration, write,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
When Time Slips AwaySo little time—
Yet so much left undone!
On the pages of life still remain
Sketches of dreams left to run.
So many promises lost in the mist,
So many hopes quietly withdrew—
Countless paths remain untraveled,
So many sights left out of view.
What still remains—
To behold the world with wide-open eyes,
To truly live...
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Categories:
books, dream, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
When Time Slips AwaySo little time—
Yet so much left undone!
On the pages of life still remain
Sketches of dreams left to run.
So many promises lost in the mist,
So many hopes quietly withdrew—
Countless paths remain untraveled,
So many sights left out of view.
What still remains—
To behold the world with wide-open eyes,
To truly live...
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Categories:
books, dream, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Goodnight Moon - the StampGoodnight Moon
a children's book by Margaret Wise Brown
the subject of my poem and my latest stamp purchase
was also a book that I read to my son
when he was little
not thirty-three, like he is now
forgive my forgetting the details
the book is no longer on my shelf
but in the story
it's bedtime for a little rabbit
who says goodnight...
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Categories:
books, childhood,
Form: Ekphrasis
Life is a Booklife is a book
in the beginning
you hold it in your hands
new, fresh, unblemished
it is only potential
who knows what dreams it holds?
at the end
you look back at a story, cherished
you hate to put it down
it's sad to realize it's over
it was wonderful, but...
so different from
the story you imagined
when you picked it up...
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Categories:
birth, books, death, life,
Form: Free verse
cinderellas competitionchiffon ruffles of peach and blue
delicate and delectable
adorned with sequins and pearls
worn by a gentlewoman from France
her taste is exquisite, chic and posh
adorned in this creation
she gave Cinderella a bit of competition...
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Categories:
books, fashion,
Form: Free verse
Mystery TV Shows and Mystery Novelsmysteries are all over the internet
these stories have been popular for decades
I rarely watch a mystery show twice
I never read a mystery novel a second time
after knowing who did it and how they did it, what would be the point?...
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Categories:
books,
Form: Free verse
Reading Material
Another chapter in my life
over much too soon
when there's so much more to live
it's just not opportune
but is Anonymous the author
or would it be myself possibly
writing this tale so true
could it be an autobiography
and yet I won't be put on hold
my one and only guarantee
tho' late won't be overdue
when it's check out time for me
for...
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Categories:
appreciation, books, death, how
Form: Rhyme
Jaun Elia English Translations IIThese are English translations of Urdu poems by Jaun Elia with themes of solitude, loneliness, alienation, love, life, death and loss.
When you come, you will find me lost,
for in my solitude there are dreams, nothing else.
You desire to decorate my room,
but in my room there are books, nothing else.
These tyrannical books have done me a...
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Categories:
books, dream, life, loneliness, loss,
Form: Free verse
scrapbook
scrap book
leaves out of the
tree that fell right
in between two friends' first meet
pressed between her heart and
arms - scrapbook
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Visions of a Vignette 2
Sponsor: Nette Onclaude
22/05/25
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Categories:
books, heart, words,
Form: Verse
In all the books of history written with ink of blood and dried tearsIn all the books of history written with ink of blood and dried tears,
There is no war that was not hatched in the shadow of palaces of power,
Governments alone, like birds of prey sharpening their claws in silence,
Independent of the hearts of people, for whom war is always poison.
How many generations have marched on dusty...
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Categories:
books, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Botox GoldilocksGoldilocks and the three bears,
The story is a classic.
But one idea came to mind,
What if she was made of plastic?
With lips so swollen
And cheeks so bloated
She was red and shiny
And was very coated.
The bears that came saw the porridge,
They searched and found Goldilocks.
Screaming and fearful,...
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Categories:
adventure, animal, books, children,
Form: Rhyme
The Chalk Beneath My Fingernails-The Chalk Beneath My Fingernails-
I walk a path where roads dissolve,
Where rivers rise and hopes revolve,
Through jungle mist and dusty lanes,
With every step, I carry names—
Of children born with hollow bowls,
But eyes that shine like tempered coals.
The schoolhouse leans against the sky,
Its roof a patchwork, spirits high.
The walls may crack, the floor may creak,
But voices...
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Categories:
books, children, class, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Of Crows and PossumsSitting on a long deck
At a trailer
In South Georgia
Wind in the Pine Trees
Reading Nathaniel Hawthorne
My stomach is empty
except for
this longing and guilt
A murder of Crows
loudly soar through
Creasing the boughs of the Pines
It is only
Them and I
And
Love that I left
Love that I lost
A hollow serenity settles in
I pull at the Scarlet Letter
Blazing on my chest
Hester exposed
As...
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Categories:
angst, betrayal, books, divorce,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Books Poems
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