Short Go By The Book Poems

Touch my flowing spirit, if you can.
It dances on highest treetops, 
So that very few ever can.
It sits laughing atop the lotus tree!
Waiting for you to go close your book.
Life does not live there, don't
you see?
It's in my elusive laughter.
And my own poetic pedigree!


September 5, 2019

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Read for an hour or more.
Enjoy all those fine published works galore
And it will take you to places you've never been before.
Delve into those pages of wondrous writes.
In no time, your imagination reaches new heights.
No limits exist as there are no boundaries.
Go open a book, and see what everyone sees.

inspired by another member's poem....

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"What I Accomplished Today"
I finished my new poem book today.
A real kicker of a book.
By Jimmy Boo Semtex.
So do beware when you read these pages.
You may just go book.
My new book is called Picnic.
And is a bit mad.
Satire delight world leader cliches.
Making love.
We've all been there. 
So go get my book and read this poem.
It's NOT in my book!...

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Yes it is true:
Life is unfair
Right here on cue
In vivid air.


Yes you can see:
Each with a flair
To do and be
In strange affairs.


Yes you can look:
Seize and stretch sums
Go by the book
To fit what comes.


Yes in the end:
Do all you can
To work and bend
The rules you plan.


Yes time tells you:
To live your best
And pay your dues
With feisty zest.



Leon Enriquez
27 May 2017
Singapore...

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I go to face book and with few friends she is still there
as she died early spring never to be erased
to me she was a mentor and I loved her
taking the time to read me at ninety three of age
she was fabulous and more surrounded with books
and so I joined the soup to fill the void
a box she sent me on a shelf I cherish
keep it alive with mementos and why not
and a beach never to be replaced 
I probably have sand hidden in my sandals...

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Read back the lines,
go through your book
     search between the lost spaces
Somebody is there behind
     the enigma of what the next is going to be howling for.
Clapping, we just clap
     for the ones to perform.
We perform  in front or behind.
    We just look in front at the mirror,  a big enigma to follow.
     Among the lines we loose
the innocence, among lines we 
     find another stage to jump into
the next enigma to start with...

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