Shelving Poems

Bookends

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A pair pulling their weight
sandwiching the meat of my literary treasure
~ shelving their showstopping good looks



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025...

Love Twice Tossed

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We had been up, down and sideways with lonely nights and 
solitary days.  We had seen total darkness dispensed from our 
fights.  Our heads began believing our wrongs could not discover 
our r...

4x10

...The Killing Field”

Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it d...

4x10

...The Killing Field”

Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it d...

Holiday Fun

...Santa was fast asleep in the workshop
When a prankster caused a balloon to POP
It was that naughty elf
Who now sits on a shelf
But can't cause trouble cuz he's just a prop

No others liked that...

Jane-By-The-Sea

...Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA is 114 miles from my home in San Francisco. It's home to my friend Jane (a former fellow worker) she now finds California's central coastline to be the next best place t...

Absolute deafening silence

...Absolute deafening silence...

during and after a moderate snowfall
today January 19th, 2024,
within Southeastern Pennsylvania
and elsewhere across the Eastern Seaboard,
whereby blanket of whit...

Desperate Hope

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Placed First in:
This or That Vol 22 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Edward Ibeh                                


                                     Desperate Hope

                        Le...

What One Children's Book Can Do

...I was shelving books in the children’s section the other day…straightening up the space
when I ran across Where The Wild Things Are…and it brought a smile to my face.

Because when I enter into th...

I Wait With Bated Breath For C Cure T Clarence

...I wait with bated breath for... C. Cure T. Clarence

The following crafted 
approximately midway 
into the administration 
of forty fifth president,
whose crass, gutsy, lewd,
repulsive yawping...

A Tiny Home Improvement

...A tiny home improvement 
Can instill a sense of pride
For your efforts are apparent
And results can’t be denied.

Taking charge and getting started 
Are the hardest things to do,
But if things...

Faith

..."The righteous shall live by faith"
Romans 1:17

Posted on Poetry Soup 12 January 2023
Contest no 1265 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand

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Pop Marts, Ma Tends To Tend

...Ma and Pop
pop and ma
the small needle
the big darn.

Little shop of peddlers
first to be robbed,
accused of being
gougers.

Ma wants to move to Florida,
pa wants to expand
the jerky stic...

Fishing

...Here is a fisherman without rod or net.
His shadow swims beneath the water
yet he is warm and asleep
in a faraway bed.

Moonlight washes lake waves.
Here is a breath, there is a breath.
He see...

Beware the Banning of Books and Speech

...I’m not sure what’s happening in this country…sometimes I think it’s being overrun by fools…in some states they’re banning books…in my state, Florida, they’re banning talking about gender and sexuali...

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