Short Bookstores Poems

She likes flowers. She likes galleries and art.  She likes bookstores and museums, and walks in the park.  She’s enticingly odd, her countenance unflawed, I’m ooohed and I’m awed.  I gotta tell ya – she is one cool broad....

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“You only have one chance in life to make your first impression.
Don’t’ wait for the red light to turn green,
Wait for the green light to turn red
As if you’re rushing,
You might end up ruining that one chance!”

(My New Poetry Book (The Language Of Love)
is available Online and in bookstores
It’s A collection Of Poems (mostly about Love)
More Info? www.xlibris.com/TheLanguageOfLove)...

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Old hippies, good food 
   a couple of good bookstores
In short a trip to Woodstock, New York 
I wore a shirt with a picture of Dylan Thomas(not bob Dylan - whom I follow)
  People don't know about that place 
  It is a change of pace from NYC
My poetry teacher said to write in iambic pentameter 
   Well, I might try to 
and perhaps you should to 
But the main point is getting your message out 
   Poetic brothers and sister!...

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I hate the business of writing
the commerce of word craft
the tedium of publishing
the deadlines imposed

I hate the word count 
the editing and proofing
the book signing travel
and agents exposed

I hate the promotion
each workshop and fair
the reviews and the podcasts 
the bookstores that sell

But I love the writing
when the words come together
releasing my spirit
—my fortune to tell

(The New Room: January, 2022)...

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