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Collector's Clutter

Dealers’ catalogs, they pile
My desk and overflow my file,
My first editions fight for space:
Like weeds, the price-lists choke their place.
© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
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Collector's Clutter

Dealers’ catalogs, they pile
My desk and overflow my file,
My first editions fight for space:
Like weeds, the price-lists choke their place.
© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
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Form: Verse

Devour a Good Book

Once a bookworm from Timbuktu 
Devoured every book he went through
He was quiet scary
Ate every book in the library
First editions, hardcovers and paperbacks too

The Bookworm Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Kai Michael Newmann
3/8/19
Form: Limerick

Premium Member My Gutenberg Bible

From Genes to Brains to Books
Lap in words from these Brooks

Pan ideas heavy to swirl analysis
There, assimilate your anonymous

Fill your Mind to cast first Editions
Emulate Gutenberg's Impressions

Now, aspire to be 

SET FREE
Form: Rhyme

Window

upstairs window
the fields looking as
covered with snow in the night
thinking of all and nothing
but the moonlit fields

my zen books,
peter pauper press editions,
yellow with age now
showing my steadfast love
for no-mind even now
Form: Tanka


Premium Member CHANCE POEM 060524 enigma

too grand
running
       around
turned 
   to 
    absolute
       sounds

recalled
   secrets
painstakinly
     plotted
&artfully
   arranged
regularly
  contiued

motivates
  things
    of life
times
   undertood
by
editions
made
for happiness
Form: Other

Scent of Lilac- Part I

A scent of lilac
astride the dawn.
A hidden cricket
starts singing a dirge
to the evening star
for his morning stars
that he never dared 
to turn into day.

(Translated from the Greek ????d?? ?as?a????, a poem from my poetry collection, in ebook form published by the internet editions www.24grammata.com 
at http://www.24grammata.com/?p=42611)

Premium Member Blue Dog by George Rodrigue

George Rodrigue never expected the Blue Dog to be his ticket to fame
But it is, and it has never stopped
If you were one of the lucky ones, you have first editions
Purchased for a mere pittance on the streets of New Orleans
Others can copy it, but they had better not.
Everyone knows who has rights to the Blue Dog
George has become rich off of him, and rightly so
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Time Elite

time elite editions defeat crawling under streets railroading ghetto sheets undercover mother heaps coal from miners daughtes diamonds up for societys slaughter ghost poems favoring hollow words each step is life turning as it learns reasoning crushed beyond reason time was time before each season words ran rabid after rabbits turtles snail stuck track in habits ?
art
Form: Blitz

Premium Member Bookstore, Musty Galore

Bookstore, Musty Galore
Allen's Old Gold Discover,
SecondStory Pages of Glory,
Kelmscott Shelves Soar & Hover,
1st Editions Scarce Recovery,
Fore Edge Paintings Lover,
However It's Cheapo Papery,
Provides a Comfy Nest Plover,
Finding Fresh Author Flesh Scary!
Going Broke Buying A Great Cover,
I'm Not Waiting 'til Old & Hairy,
Grazing Tomes is Similar to Clover,
Diet As Extant Goodreads is Nary!
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member All In the Mind

Who needs a boost?
With endorphins you are always in the driving seat.
Belt up about clean bill!
Self love, self acceptance come in standard and
De Lux Editions, jewel case or soft pack
signed by the inner peace within.
Put those axons and dendrites to work.
Pump up those dormant alkalies asleep on the job.
Treat yourself well,
be your best health care plan,
be that one and only healer,
wave goodbye to doctors bills!

Oh, My Faces and Image of Mine

Oh, my faces and image of mine,
They aren’t having some likeness of yours
I’m not prince I’m not master of mine
with the oil or gold, it’s not loss.
I won’t freeze on the pictures of glance
in editions of fashion and vogue 
Royal parties won’t take off the suns
from my cheeks after their idle talk.
I’m the same as I was in the past
And the crows fly above my poor head
I don’t need their falsehood, I’m guest
in this show, save your crown for next lad.
Form: Lyric

Now We Are Electric

We are charged and driven,
dying to be
imprinted onto whiteness,
the minds dark ink
reprinted in endless new editions.

Some call this poetry,
how we are compelled to rehearse
deathbed scenes torn from our youth,
then others tell nothing at all,
but tap to unwrap
a brief and breathless thought.

Now we are this electric signaling
upon the lids of space-boards -
open casket viewings,
our penny-weight eyes,
rising to a world where a life
can be replayed once more.

Bookshop Osmosis

The glossy acrylic smell of new editions
is cordite to my nose,
an explosive mixture of - need to know.
I finger trawl over dust covers
mindreading unread masterpieces.

Movies ransacked many of these novels,
hearsay and word of mouth
account for aisles
of open secrets and
commonly revealed revelations.

I should obtain a dozen or so acclaimed sagas,
display them on a prominent shelf –
because, well, one really ought to,

or maybe just read last chapters,
if not too long.

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