Short Bookshelf Poems

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Better On Toast

side by side 
on the dusty bookshelf
twin jars of formaldehyde
slowly drying
in poison preserve
my heart always
to guard yours


Anatomy of the Brain

racking of the nerves.
a bookshelf of nerves. 
walk into a library of nerves. 
pick a nerve. 
turn it over. 
read its contents.

the nerve.
© Amra Cau  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Dust

We took a novel to Rome, 
left it on a bus.

A photograph of us
between its pages.

Dusting a bookshelf,
recalling the photo
seeing us back then,

The Islands Are Not Lonely

now,
(my) collection of poems
library
on the bookshelf
coming out
in backpack bag
at the coffee shop
into back trouser pocket,
I'm going to meet you.

Premium Member Bygone Novel Flop

Wry grin from bookshelf,
dark tome teethers in shadow,
bookmarked for downfall!

tarnished page a fright,
dull wobbly watermark smudge,
reeks of distant stain!
Form: Senryu


That Sad Moment When You Realize You Need Space

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray
Go throw your tv set away
And in it's place you can install
A new bookshelf on the wall.


this is from my lovely younger sister Alexandra. :)
Form: Rhyme

Captured Internally

I’m a bird in a cage, but the cage is my head,
On a walk in the park, but I’m running instead,
The bookshelf is haunted, my reflection is too,
Squeaks and whimpers out in the blue
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member To His Knowledge

Top of his tall white bookshelf is full of items so baby blue,
His books all lined up, each of a different shade of hue,
Filled with knowledge of his own inner world both false and true.
Form: Sijo

Premium Member Footle-Bookworm In Two Forms

FOOTLE
well read

learned


BROKEN MONOKU
at ease on my bookshelf-
                                     yesteryear's leisured hours


a 'broken monoku' is my variation upon the one line monoku  form,

Precipitation

A Day of Precipitation

A window is a good place 
To look out
When it rains beautiful to see 
From a warm room 
A bookshelf of old friends 
Some remembered others
Rediscovered 
So let it rain, rain, rain.
Form: Bio

We

Thusly
A thought
The first letter
A sentence ensues
The paragraph develops
A chapter has been inscribed
The new story can be ascertained
A position on the bookshelf is reserved
The copywriter will never be discouraged
Form: Shape

Bookshelf Breakout

The ancient cracking bookcase stuttered
Books trembled upon the shelves,
Then scattering across the rug bound floor
Where they took up new residence.

Those left in the bookshelf
started to rock back and forth
hoping to join the colonials on the floor.

Rhymed Review On Hamlet By William Shakespeare

Immortal Prince keeps coming back to make us look in depth: 
What's better choice - to take the life "as is" or challenge it by death. 
Each one finds answer on his own, decides it by thyself, 
But if you want Shakespeare's advise - take "Hamlet" from bookshelf.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member if I was a Marsupial

If I was a marsupial
I would stay in mama’s pouch
Which would save me from hurting
I would never have to say “darn” or “ouch”

Never stub my toe or injure myself
Snug as a cherished vase on a bookshelf
I would stay hidden, cozy and warm
In no danger from predators or a bad storm
Form: Rhyme

always everything

Always everything 

A cleaner is dusting
my bookshelf
little does she know
the dust is my relatives
but I know
the dust will be back
tomorrow
The awe we sense 
when looking up
a starlit night
is the knowledge 
the universe is us
So, the scientists 
tell us
We are stardust
© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.

Book Never Read

In mixed dust
Resting serene
On the old bookshelf
Leaning , the insufficient wall strength
The tight room so small
For the furniture out of fashion
There is so much vermin
As in a wedding
Tasting with insatiable revelry
The freedom of poetry
On the leaves, in recycled paper
Of a book never read

The Refuge

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Best wishes U.P

CAGED FAIRY

Born with a grief to the world at large
The eyes showed thirst for embrace
Little feet attached to birdcage
Lively spirit wheeled cowardly at a glance
Innocent toward Father rule roam
Dreams swinging on the footing of sexuality
Bookshelf took a shape of group home
Screeching for the freedom to unfold promptly..
Form: Rhyme

Bookshelf

Biographies of different kinds
Orwell with Atwood, intertwined
Old books, new books, a thousand rhymes
Keeping their words, holding those lines
Singing caged birds, sit whistling chimes
Histories, mysteries, marking time
Every volume, fixed on my mind
Lexicons, for a world we can't find
Fact versus fiction, yours and mine.
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member SEARCH FOR ME

SEARCH FOR ME on the dusty bookshelf, in this room filled with very old books. I sit here waiting to be chosen, needing to be read by a reader. Do you know it is hard to find me? Old books standing cover to cover, wait for a reader to SEARCH FOR ME. I long to be in your loving hands, and being read by your loving eyes.
Form: Verse

Bookshelf

woah! look at that bookshelf,
it's split into three sections,
how convenient,
there's a politics section, a sports section, and a fiction section,
some of the books look quite interesting,
I'd steer clear of the Hillary Clinton book though,
she can go die in a hole,
(maybe that's a bit harsh. I don't personally know her after all.)
© Shiiii Idk  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Reading Retreat

In the house groups, I am a bookshelf grope I am ambivalent in chatting around the weather scope Talking in circles represents an ophidian rattle Quickly reminded me of the impending tattle. I would rather be here, close to the library. To grasp what is going through your mind prairie.
Written: November 09, 2022
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Balance Lost

There is not enough time in the day for us 
to understand what we need to
together under one roof we lie and wait
wanton thoughts becomes a balance lost
the top spins faster
Life is now disordered at the highest cost 
A bookshelf empty, all the voices lost
Could it be we are not as brave as we once thought?

Don't grieve yet not all is lost.
Form: ABC

Moving On

This new year
I tuck you away
Like a sweater I no longer wear
 
You whose squiggly ink
occupy hardcover journals
I cherishingly placed 
on a wooden bookshelf
 
You I've outgrown
You a place I no longer go to
You who are fading with time
 
Leaving only faint lines in my psyche
From where I draft new ideas
You the ghost of last year's thoughts

Stone Coals

stone coals aloned in diamond hole what cave shines all the time phrases caught letters aught learn me again word spin hook hook hook looker looked looking hooked hooked hooked time from me shook tremble before me i's says to myself what bookshelf lover love me tree tree tree me i am glass diamond shattering stone coals ?
art
Form: Lyric

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