Short Belden Poems

A Trixie Belden Mystery Novel!
lost in the bowels of the closet
Opened the missive slowly.

Felt like coming home
Smell you can get nowhere else
From nothing else
Wafted into my nostrils.

The smell of an old friend, 
A book from my childhood
It is not found in any sprays or candles.

Cannot be duplicated, replicated or even hinted at.
The smell of an old, familiar, wonderful childhood book....

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After I read all of the Trixie Belden books I could find
My aunt Janice allowed me to read one of her Nancy Drew books
She had a book case filled with them.
She was chintzy with them, only allowed me to borrow one at a time.
I used to beg to take two, but she had her standards.
So I took one at a time, disliking how she was slowing down my progress.
I never liked Nancy Drew as much as Trixie Belden anyway....

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Laura Ingles Wilder 
Her prose were milder
Than poetry or verse
Intended to coearce

Louisa May Alcott
Wrote tales I bought
About women and boys
With hearts sure to poise

Miss Nancy Drew
Wasn't such a shrew
She solved every crime
In her own spare time

Little Trixie Belden
Mysteries were well done
Dancing with shadows
Which she would expose

The brothers Grimm
Wrote tales that did brim
With joy, hope and love
Sent down from heaven above

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