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Premium Member ABOUT A LETTER POST-SCRIPT
... Thought I perhaps should let all my friends see, How touched I was on finding this letter to me, Found by mistake, after so many years, I collapsed into buckets of tears, A treasure bequeathed ......

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Categories: editions, books,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member My Gutenberg Bible
... From Genes to Brains to Books Lap in words from these Brooks Pan ideas heavy to swirl analysis There, assimilate your anonymous Fill your Mind to cast first Editions Emulate Gutenberg's Im......

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Categories: editions, inspiration, words, writing,
Form: Rhyme



Bookshop Osmosis
...The glossy acrylic smell of new editions is cordite to my nose, an explosive mixture of - need to know. I finger trawl over dust covers mindreading unread masterpieces. Movies ransacked many o......

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Categories: editions, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member CHANCE POEM 060524 enigma
...too grand running around turned to absolute sounds recalled secrets painstakinly plotted &artfully arranged regularly contiued motivates thin......

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Categories: editions, word play,
Form: Other
Premium Member Blue Dog by George Rodrigue
...George Rodrigue never expected the Blue Dog to be his ticket to fame But it is, and it has never stopped If you were one of the lucky ones, you have first editions Purchased for a mere pittance on......

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Categories: editions, art,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Legend
...Look up in the sky ! It’s a bird ! It’s a plane. It’s Superman ! More powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. This fearless man of ......

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Categories: editions, courage,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member For Your Reading Pleasure
...It was just last night. I was not sleepy, nor did I want to watch tv. I had read the Bible earlier. I came across 3 old copies of one of my favorite magazines that I had not read for some tim......

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Categories: editions, education, literature,
Form: Narrative
A Small Bookshop
...Ranks of glossy printed editions squeezed into a concertina of space. The acrylic smell of new books is cordite to my nose. Then in softer contrast, the musky ambiance of the old and well-thum......

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Categories: editions, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Medieval Poems Iv
...Medieval Poems IV IN LIBRARIOS by Thomas Campion loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Booksellers laud authors for novel editions as pimps praise their whores for exotic ......

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Categories: editions, angel, mother, romance, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Banish Me To the Bookshop
...BANISH ME TO THE BOOKSHOP Chain me, so I can roam. Lock me away in this bower. Banish me to the bookshop - i’ll enjoy this affair for hours! First editions recline behind smudg......

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Categories: editions, books,
Form: Couplet
Safe Yank
...Safe Yank The American was a typical man of his breed Loving guns and weapons and ammunitions He had a huge collection of firearms at home Well over 300 rifles and hand guns of all kinds From Re......

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Categories: editions, history, usa, war,
Form: Blank verse
State of the Art Iv
...State of the Art (IV) These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry. Hearthside by Michael R. Burch “When you are old and grey and full of sleep...” — W. ......

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Categories: editions, art, muse, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Acclimatization
...Acclimatization is a serious matter. I mean one cannot keep bouncing around a kaleidoscopic chameleon-like center can one? Therefore I have almost absolved myself from causing all that emoti......

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Categories: editions, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Imagination Owl
...Imagination Owl was tired today. He had collected first and second editions And kept the wolves and hounds away. Everyone had heard about his collection and wanted a peek. He was not against sh......

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Categories: editions, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Naughty Novelties
...NOVELTIES by Thomas Campion loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Booksellers laud authors for novel editions as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions. This is my tra......

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Categories: editions, books, extended metaphor, poems,
Form: Epigram

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