Short Novels Poems

red hat on shelf
read mysteries under
Ready to guess again...

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Lover of novels
Always immersed mind full of
Imagination....

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Oceanic tales,
Paragraphs of vivid waves:
Novels of the sea....

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self-inspired scriptures
of godless religion
written by heretics...

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Scattered thoughts collect

Words appear on paper

Novels are bound

History is made

Legends are born...

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The Bronte sisters so literary
also writing poetry
They adopted the pseudonym Bell
to help their novels sell...

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Novelist Thoma Hardy
also poetized with simplicity
Acclaimed for a narrative sweep
unlike his novels dark&deep...

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Stroud's Laurie Lee
known novels rather than poetry
Notwithstanding wrote sensuous verse
atmospheric succinct&so terse...

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Maurice de Vlaminck
volatile versatile so many think
Just four colours red blue yellow green
novels&memoirs also his scene...

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US born Edgar Allan oe
inventor of detective novels,you know
He suggested 'eleven golden rules'
still unsurpassed&oh so cool...

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Bankers daughter Jean Ingelow
Tennyson &Browning she got to know 
Her novels were very telling
but her poesy had archaic spelling...

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From the erudite family ofHuxley
cane Aldous with poetics so free
Penning satirical novels so well
his posey perhaps too metaphysical...

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Charles John Huffam Dickens
wrote many novels where the plot thickened
but one of his best ditties
was A Tale of two Cities
...

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David Copperfield's Great Expectations
  Oliver Twist's Hard Times
Tale of Two Cities, No Christmas Carol
  Dickens' Novels -- Poetry Sans Rhymes...

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English writer Jane Austen -
Reading was a thing she could get lost in.
Never married; died at forty-one.
With romance novels, her readers' hearts she won....

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A singing lobster,*
‘Commando’ graphic novels,
Skelton T-shirts:
All presents she has asked for;
Wonder what she wants this year…

*animatronics, not living, LOL...

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Some novels are the whole Country
Or a city, a village, a house even being a villa
Or life or a part of a life
An event is a short story
And poetry
A feeling...

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Our
faces
are novels
still in progress
Each year we add another line or two

Some
authors
decide to
erase the lines
they're unhappy with, fearing bad reviews...

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some called them desperadoes
their feats were written up in dime novels
bankers dreaded the day they would show up
I called them sons, they were sweet babies to me....

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I leave my mark
In two forms
paintings and poetry

Others leave novels
I leave short stories
not caring if I am compared

My children haven’t read my poems
yet...

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Charles Dickens
his novels began as writing compositions
with hilarity and kindness, he wrote of the poor
with stories we still love that from his pen did pour...

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most seek happily ever after
rich prince on the white horse
or princess who can spin straw into gold
these tales are invaluable
to our health
hey is that Cinderella?...

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Where have all the novels gone
  Name three good ones written
    in the last thirty years...

  Seems they're on the back burners
    in their place, 'page-turners'...

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England’s Dame Agatha Christie
wrote novels with plots often twisty.
Best-selling fiction writer of all time,
her Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot solved many a crime.
...

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It is like thousands of novels
that I’ll never read;
cuisines I’ll never enjoy;
people I’ll never meet…..
It measures our lives –
every heartbeat, breathing
and the spaces between…...

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