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Bookshelves Poems - Poems about Bookshelves

Premium MemberMy Inner Voice Told Me

...A plethora of complex verbiage clogs and clutters solemn university tombs,
gem-encrusted sequestered  vaults  impervious on  mountain peak percentage practical basis, 
when express benevolence  enj...
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Categories: bookshelves, care, character, dedication, deep,
Form: Free verse

Between The Covers - Tribute to Rain Literary Magazine

...Pull back the covers and experience,
Just how fresh and crisp it is inside,
Discover a poet who once lived among us,
And built community,
Out of encouragement, fun and wondering

Like you, he p...
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Categories: bookshelves, art, poetry, poets, river,
Form: Blank verse



Silent Mission

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Glass shattered Saturday afternoon tea for  S I L E N C E

holding steady raven momentum for its own  r i p p i n g
fire from heartbeat slashes its void to tumble wounds of ...
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Categories: bookshelves, abuse, change, courage, deep,
Form: Free verse

Daughter of the Sandman

...Daughter of the Sandman 

War-story woman stands astride 
the country now,
book-store tour bleary now,
author hands aching 
from signing the $20.99
paperback professing her father’s 
Marne Co...
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Categories: bookshelves, america, daughter, father daughter,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWeathered Opportunities

...Beyond the relics stance tainted feigned glory, 
the achievers had gifted us their puzzles,
speckled based best in their field of theory,
like Baia hot baths, can't stomach its guzzles...
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Categories: bookshelves, conflict, history, money, passion,
Form: Ottava rima



Bookshelves

...Bookshelves

My bookshelves filled with
books radiate
chive mood swings.
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Categories: bookshelves, humor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFarewell

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My quill scratches here in this cold, musty, dark room
with it my papyrus scroll.  We are all of us entombed
Last night, echoes of coming fright, impending Doom
Once more, another step forward f...
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Categories: bookshelves, future,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSudden Hints of Memories

...I catered to the sudden hints of memories 
the sullen notion that thought had occurred 
somewhere during the balance of quiet 
emotions I'd remembered traces of heaven 
that bestowed a calmness r...
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Categories: bookshelves, adventure, angel, inspiration, peace,
Form: Chant Royal

Premium MemberI am Shakespeare

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Across the years, 400 plus, my stories endlessly play out their parts.
I played not on painted stage, but I knew the human heart - 
I captured, with quill and scratch, the passions of laughter an...
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Categories: bookshelves, character, history, humor, literature,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLove My Way

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"Love My Way"

Ghosts read the walls like braille in this place
it’s a macabre dance with the past and the petulant future
it romances them away from the let-it-be momen...
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Categories: bookshelves, dark, light, love, muse,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRaven and Wren

...RAVEN AND WREN

As the world wakes up
To the sun’s gentle rays of light
Frozen memories melt and flow 
Penetrate but do not satiate
Moments of insipid sight
A scenery of incessant delight
As ...
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Categories: bookshelves, bird, fate, hurt, leaving,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBeer Cheese Poetry Soup, Part Whatever

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Just add beer and abracadabra . . . 
Flavor galore! 
Just don’t add too much . . . 
Alcoholism is a disease. 
It should cook out though. Anyway, I hope it’s not too cheesy. 
Some of you are ...
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Categories: bookshelves, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Library

...In my dreams, I hear whispers and echoes from abandoned books
Begging for attention, from their old bookshelves and cozy library nooks 
Ghostly pages full of dust, some damaged from water leaks and...
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Categories: bookshelves, books, dream, fantasy, old,
Form: Rhyme

I Am

...I am
Wednesday morning trips to the local library with my mom and younger siblings,
Wandering wondrous paths through bookshelves bustling with books.
Exploring, savoring, lingering inbetwixt parag...
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Categories: bookshelves, family, heaven, miss you,
Form: Bio

From My Bookshelves

...Spiritual dragons – the ones that kill
reside and wait impatiently for seeking fingers.
Hobbits eat breakfast mushrooms
in a leather-bound shire.
Small books on overly large religions.
Poets and...
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Categories: bookshelves, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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