Short Novels Poems

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

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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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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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“Place this cloak around you and blink six times
You will then hear three chimes
When your body begins to shudder
You’ll be invisible to your own mother!”...

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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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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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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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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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While reading one of my novels up in my loft,
was easily distracted by something soft,
my kitty pawed at me,
couldn't ignore it or flee,
until after awhile the novelty finally wore off....

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