Short Bookshelf Poems
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side by side
on the dusty bookshelf
twin jars of formaldehyde
slowly drying
in poison preserve
my heart always
to guard yours
Categories:
bookshelf, death, love, time,
Form:
Blank verse
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.
Categories:
bookshelf, body,
Form:
Verse
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,
Categories:
bookshelf, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
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.
Categories:
bookshelf, love,
Form:
Free verse
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. :)
Categories:
bookshelf, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
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
Categories:
bookshelf, feelings, horror, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
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.
Categories:
bookshelf, books, boyfriend, for him, imagery, philosophy,
Form:
Sijo
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,
Categories:
bookshelf, education,
Form:
Light Verse
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.
Categories:
bookshelf, body, break up, butterfly, career, change, child,
Form:
Bio
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
Categories:
bookshelf, analogy, creation, god, growing up, life, metaphor,
Form:
Shape
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.
Categories:
bookshelf, books,
Form:
Free verse
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.
Categories:
bookshelf, books,
Form:
Rhyme
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
Categories:
bookshelf, animal,
Form:
Rhyme
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
Categories:
bookshelf, age, dance, death,
Form:
Blank verse
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
Categories:
bookshelf, depression,
Form:
Blank verse
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..
Categories:
bookshelf, abuse, bird, birth, boy, child abuse, emotions,
Form:
Rhyme
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.
Categories:
bookshelf, books, history, imagery, metaphor, relationship, words, world,
Form:
Acrostic
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.)
Categories:
bookshelf, books,
Form:
Free verse
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
Categories:
bookshelf, analogy, appreciation, books, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
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.
Categories:
bookshelf, confusion, horror,
Form:
ABC
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
Categories:
bookshelf, creation,
Form:
Free verse
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
?
Categories:
bookshelf, art,
Form:
Lyric
If I could fly, I probably wouldn't.
Yeah, I would.
The first point is that there are no points;
there never will be.
Last night I threw my bookshelf off the roof.
No pleasure, no sensation.
A presence of nothing, that's the goal.
I don't want that.
There are no marks on my record.
There are no records.
No thoughts, no feelings, no guilt.
Only movement and pain.
Categories:
bookshelf, flying,
Form:
Free verse
Please, talk to me right now
I want to hear you somehow
It can be just one little word
Without it I’m lost and scared
Show me the source of light
I want my path to be bright
My troubles should stay behind
I don’t want them to make me blind
My today is destroyed by myself
I want to put it on the bookshelf
Lead me to the future right now
I want to make it perfect somehow
Categories:
bookshelf, life, me, me,
Form:
Couplet
I have betrayed myself and others
My own sisters and brothers
So tonight as I sit kneeling
I can only feel this feeling
Guilt and death itself
Crawling out of the bookshelf
I read the words and I can't find mercy
Neither the priest nor the clergy
I find myself in this hole again
Crying and weeping as I sat there wondering; fearing
Fearing that my best was not enough
Categories:
bookshelf, baptism, bible, christian, dark, deep, depression, fear,
Form:
ABC