Short Bookshelves Poems

Bookshelves

My bookshelves filled with
books radiate
chive mood swings.
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Narrative works
Of literature by
Various authors of
Erudite standing
Line my bookshelves....

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old bookshelves dwindle
        one page holds all ~ big swindle 
                 new hardback kindle


Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann 
Bookshop Poetry Contest
10/3/2021
Syllable counter PS 5/7/5...

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in bookshelves of yesterday's memories

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~ Tribute to Kibbutz
       Sde Eliyahu ~


45 years vanished
  my heart yet beats
for the tiny farming village
  my purest, unsullied love

the people mostly gone
  who helped me find myself
their still-life photos sit upright
  on tear-stained worn bookshelves...

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BOOKS

B rowsing must be the best thing you can do in public places
O n and on the bookshelves go –from blessings to disgraces
O ther hobbies need some gear and often make you run--
K ids go crazy making noise—how can this place be fun?
Steadfast friends-- the books --so silent-- wait til I am done...

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Sunday Haiku 

Dust on bookshelves
tells of life lived, stillness
Spanish bluebells tolls

Among old olive trees 
flowers as yellow as butter
distance is hurtful.

A framed photo 
mother hangs on a wall
wordless she speaks.

A white coffin 
her face was in harmony
beautiful the peace....

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An essential stepping stone
in the stream of self-enlightenment 

...Our bookshelves ...

where yesteryear's memories
become who we are

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jubilant echoes
stirring up the years
within the warmth
inside the walls
a nice thing they
protectively keep

on bookshelves
by the study lamp
paperweight conch
framed snapshots
a nice thing they
protectively keep

like rare pearls
lovely, exotic
memories glint
shale stone flint
a nice thing they
protectively keep...

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The Genie-us crawled silently out of the old clock, 
and climbed up the bookshelves at night

The Genie-us then read from the pages forbidden, 
feeling shame with a lusty delight

The Genie-us returned as the sun came up, 
crawling inside the tall clock in the hall

The old pendulum again swinging, the chimes reset 
—until darkness anew comes to call

(Dreamsleep: April, 2020)...

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The cyber bully can't see, that 
only god can judge me.
When I try to go to my parents for help,
they know the anger, but they don't know the pain that is hurting me on the inside,
because their brains have been fried.
They have no pride in their kids or themselves.
There is no dictionary on their bookshelves.
Their phone is all they own.
When cyber bullies lie,
God starts to cry.

Poet Till I die...

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I have bookshelves of heartache
that I haven't written yet,
bloodstained pages of regret
that I haven't found words for,
a pen that always runs out of ink
in the most inopportune of moments.
Leaving me breathless in a storm of quiet,
thunderous discontent.
Everyone has a story;
I'm still stitching this one together,
one stanza at a time.
I only hope, after all of this..
It will be worth the read. 
 
-James Kelley 2014, All rights reserved....

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colors of tan and black flash in a dark cavern 
old books and the smell of dust in the rooms
spotlight glowing in and out from beyond
the harsh noise of siren in the distance
listen- hear the voices waiting under grounds
and they say:

desks and bookshelves aline
they do not need know time
these conflicts will make them
sow all into a hem
one of which will create a mass
soldiers break through fortress glass
gods frown and turn away
on this deadly broken day...

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