People Novel Poems

I was an avid, lifelong book lover, and I could read forever and a day,
Like the pleasing, scented lilacs, always and forever blooming in May.

Though...

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I am eye-deep in a story,
a timeless place that only happens now.

The view from the train window
is as still as a mountain – I may...

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You can think of this
pandemic as an novel
slowly unfolding.

We are characters
caught up in the plot - we're the
heroes and villains.

We bring our desires,
educations, biases and
social...

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A Novel Bus Ride

First week of schools' lockdown
Got to the terminal in town
Surveying the scene around me
Detecting a sense of solemnity
Got unto the bus quietly
The...

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To the people looking at this book
I say go ahead, Open it, Take a look
It may be the very thing you sought
I believe you'll be...

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NEVER SHAME A WOMAN
SHE'LL OUT DO YOU
AND FIND PEOPLE WHO'LL
DO THE SAME
MAKE A MESS OF YOUR LIFE BY PLAYING
SILLY LITTLE GAMES
MAKE YOU TO BELEIVE
THINK ABOUT...

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Drinking coffee this fine morning
with paper and pen in hand.
Putting upon myself the Great write,
  People Pleasing, In-Demand!

My eyes are barely reading and my
pen...

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The end of another day 
came to the Ravelston Estate, 
and the workers were again 
making their way back from the fields.  

And in...

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A lady from the Heain court
Did rather more than she ought
Astounding her male counterparts-
With her creative mind
Wrote the first book of its kind

Lady Murasaki authored...

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This open book without an ending
Is everything my life reminds of.
You, shallow souls, were just pretending -
You're out of touch, I'm out of mind now.
...

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Sometimes you learn to look at things
As if they are to get no better

Like single mothers on the first days of January
A hymn for the...

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In a troublesome mood, half engulfed firelight
with a silk sheen perspire, emerging a thought
In round wire glasses, too light to be noticed
and a brass nib...

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Reality slams you hard in the gut.
You move to the left when you should have gone to the right.
The red light suddenly appears and you...

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