Short Hardback Poems

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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A hardback novel 
color thou art can't be of other
leave, resign from this mastered shelter
I can't tell what my heart acquire
only a tempting scale a lonely wire
shall i even think of a plan 
or maybe not I better hide, I can
that smooth groove remain 
an some other undesired fain
thou will is yet all i long to touch
nary i know I'll  never....

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Listen to poem:

Lost & Found
David J Walker 

The hardback book bore a 
Certain air of confidence 

Of the permanence  
Of its presence 

In a library’s dust
Thrust high 

Upon a back shelf 
Waiting for the curious 

To rediscover the order 
of its letters 

and the messages 
hidden in its pages

in a thousand years
one hundred sages 

will work on
reinterpretations...

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Dusty lonely antique chair
lost your lustre modern fare
whittled wooden hardback saddle
broken wheeled tipping mantle

Covering floor with aged graces
missing party interfaces
one time sat a master...mistress,
now forgotten sitting listless

What accounts you must bestow
stories written young and old
ledgers full of erudition,
...alphabetic composition

Once a time of well oiled use
forgotten,time has made recluse.......

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