Poetry about Books
#books
Poetry about books, here you'll find poems about, or inspired by, books. Poems about the power of words and books to influence, move and inspire. Poetry by avid readers of books and those for whom a book, or books, have had a profound influence over their life, and their writing.
ManorMyth
Man_Or_Myth
Man_Or_Myth
Poem Published
18th Apr 2025 9:59pm
18th Apr 2025 9:59pm
Jacob the hunter (Pt 3)
(It’s been some time since I last made an update to this story. Im looking for thoughts on tone and grammar)
“I know how it sounds, but trust me these savage beasts are real and I will rid this country of them by myself if I have to.” Jacob stares at the determination on Lilith’s face. “I can’t deny these claims you make does align with my goal. So, we can help one another until the goal is done and no further.” Staring at Lilith with his own determination, Jacob resolves himself to end the beast and have his revenge.
Back in town, as Sir Newborn frustratingly awaits...
“I know how it sounds, but trust me these savage beasts are real and I will rid this country of them by myself if I have to.” Jacob stares at the determination on Lilith’s face. “I can’t deny these claims you make does align with my goal. So, we can help one another until the goal is done and no further.” Staring at Lilith with his own determination, Jacob resolves himself to end the beast and have his revenge.
Back in town, as Sir Newborn frustratingly awaits...
#books
#fiction
#ShortStory #tragedy
#ShortStory #tragedy
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GN101
Poem Published
26th Mar 2025 8:53am
26th Mar 2025 8:53am
Library of Hatred
Library of hatred disenfranchised by the womb of the populous
Oh, how I breath the words of true grit
Here they are expelled from the curtain of my tongue
Will you dance with my ideas behind the parallel circumstances?
Will you remember everything that has been taught to you?
Will you grab the goat by his ice-cold horns and take the ride into the stars?
The body crumbles but the will is magnificent
It is magnificent!
Oh, how I breath the words of true grit
Here they are expelled from the curtain of my tongue
Will you dance with my ideas behind the parallel circumstances?
Will you remember everything that has been taught to you?
Will you grab the goat by his ice-cold horns and take the ride into the stars?
The body crumbles but the will is magnificent
It is magnificent!
#books
#music
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ImperfectedStone
The Gardener
The Gardener
Poem Published
23rd Mar 2025 9:16pm
23rd Mar 2025 9:16pm
Librarian
Librarian
I borrowed something, perhaps a book, which is always just a book,
or a fork which is never wholly a fork,
an apple torch, actually a beacon light,
the entire colour yellow,
not like late nights whispering secrets,
or the scent of vanilla on pine,
not like a garden, or a documentary
or a song,
not like the taste of salt,
sand beneath feet,
not on a mound under small trees,
or above a river, under others,
not like others, the presumption and nervousness of others,
not like words, or sounds,
that are not...
I borrowed something, perhaps a book, which is always just a book,
or a fork which is never wholly a fork,
an apple torch, actually a beacon light,
the entire colour yellow,
not like late nights whispering secrets,
or the scent of vanilla on pine,
not like a garden, or a documentary
or a song,
not like the taste of salt,
sand beneath feet,
not on a mound under small trees,
or above a river, under others,
not like others, the presumption and nervousness of others,
not like words, or sounds,
that are not...
#books
#regret
#sadness
94 reads
2 Comments
dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
13th Mar 2025 00:41am
13th Mar 2025 00:41am
no longer looks
I’m losing all interest in the internet
offers plenty of other poetry sites
but they all seem so po faced with all that
I’ll stay at home with my books
offers plenty of other poetry sites
but they all seem so po faced with all that
I’ll stay at home with my books
#books
133 reads
6 Comments
Liziantus-Marantus
Poem Published
11th Mar 2025 10:53am
11th Mar 2025 10:53am
Writing Books
When you write a book using the feather of a hen.
Dip it in ink or use a fountain pen.
You can write whole new worlds.
Like magic,fantasize.
With your pure imagination.
And before your eyes.
The words begin to come alive and dance.
Like a romance novel with a chance.
An adventure plot in advance.
Or a comedy with a glance.
It's like your pen holds power.
As beautiful as a freshly bloomed flower.
The smell of a new book is one you cannot resist.
With a new plot,a new cover.
And the memory of the plot...
Dip it in ink or use a fountain pen.
You can write whole new worlds.
Like magic,fantasize.
With your pure imagination.
And before your eyes.
The words begin to come alive and dance.
Like a romance novel with a chance.
An adventure plot in advance.
Or a comedy with a glance.
It's like your pen holds power.
As beautiful as a freshly bloomed flower.
The smell of a new book is one you cannot resist.
With a new plot,a new cover.
And the memory of the plot...
#books
#hope
#magic #motivational
#magic #motivational
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Liziantus-Marantus
Poem Published
3rd Mar 2025 10:58am
3rd Mar 2025 10:58am
Feeling Of A New Book
Not much people talk about the feeling of a new book.
When you open it and travel worlds.
Like a magical adventure with captain Hook.
Not everyone talks about the classic smell.
Of a brand new book,and the story it tell.
Or maybe about the spell it casts.
And while you read it with imagination,it lasts.
Where you travel to different characters'' pasts.
And you travel through their head.
Through their lives,seeing through their eyes.
And practically living their lives.
Opening a new book for the first time. ...
When you open it and travel worlds.
Like a magical adventure with captain Hook.
Not everyone talks about the classic smell.
Of a brand new book,and the story it tell.
Or maybe about the spell it casts.
And while you read it with imagination,it lasts.
Where you travel to different characters'' pasts.
And you travel through their head.
Through their lives,seeing through their eyes.
And practically living their lives.
Opening a new book for the first time. ...
#books
#hope
#magic
#motivational
#prose
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dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
3rd Mar 2025 1:20am
3rd Mar 2025 1:20am
the plum days
as a child I’d sit in the library
next door to the park reading Wodehouse,
when I should have been at school
scared me frankly they asked too much
of me, what was this divided by that,
cross country running, swimming,
do you want a fight, why, what’s the point out
trafalgar upon a map
next door to the park reading Wodehouse,
when I should have been at school
scared me frankly they asked too much
of me, what was this divided by that,
cross country running, swimming,
do you want a fight, why, what’s the point out
trafalgar upon a map
#books
103 reads
2 Comments
dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
1st Mar 2025 11:44pm
1st Mar 2025 11:44pm
mate, who knows ..
where’s the next george orwell, you ask.
but there won’t be,
nor the next samuel johnson, nor swift,
come to that.
but there might be
someone else entirely
fit for the role of the boy who laughed
at the emperor’s new clothes
but there won’t be,
nor the next samuel johnson, nor swift,
come to that.
but there might be
someone else entirely
fit for the role of the boy who laughed
at the emperor’s new clothes
#books
95 reads
6 Comments
Liziantus-Marantus
Poem Published
5th Feb 2025 10:56am
5th Feb 2025 10:56am
Dear Reader
This must be what they talk about.
When they enter the fictional world,in and out.
So let us travel to a fairytale.
Written fully by ink.
It may not be real,but it makes you think.
Read this story as it evolves.
And we get rainbow clothes.
Our story eventually subsides.
After a thousand magical nights.
This story will end - so let's go to Neverland.
Write our story in this magical land.
I know there's adventures that await.
Let me be Wendy to your Peter Pan.
And use a glass,ink filled pen.
Promise...
When they enter the fictional world,in and out.
So let us travel to a fairytale.
Written fully by ink.
It may not be real,but it makes you think.
Read this story as it evolves.
And we get rainbow clothes.
Our story eventually subsides.
After a thousand magical nights.
This story will end - so let's go to Neverland.
Write our story in this magical land.
I know there's adventures that await.
Let me be Wendy to your Peter Pan.
And use a glass,ink filled pen.
Promise...
#books
#dreams
#hope
#love
#uplifting
72 reads
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Casted_Runes
Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
4th Feb 2025 12:45pm
4th Feb 2025 12:45pm
Baroness
after Paul S…
Baroness Orczy
(pronounced Or-tsey)
believed in the First World War
to a point where she aimed to enlist
a hundred thousand women to
encourage men to go enlist;
she also believed
in the innate superiority
of aristocracy
(I should have guessed that, I suppose,
based on The Scarlet Pimpernel).
We don’t always impose
our own beliefs
on those who lived
a hundred and more years ago,
for good reasons.
If Hitler was a rotten sort,
your typical German was...
Baroness Orczy
(pronounced Or-tsey)
believed in the First World War
to a point where she aimed to enlist
a hundred thousand women to
encourage men to go enlist;
she also believed
in the innate superiority
of aristocracy
(I should have guessed that, I suppose,
based on The Scarlet Pimpernel).
We don’t always impose
our own beliefs
on those who lived
a hundred and more years ago,
for good reasons.
If Hitler was a rotten sort,
your typical German was...
#books
#culture
#historical #morality
#historical #morality
86 reads
4 Comments
Casted_Runes
Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
24th Jan 2025 6:33pm
24th Jan 2025 6:33pm
Beat Me to a Pulp
"... a type of work produced by half-educated and wholly incompetent writers for consumption by office boys, factory girls, and other persons devoid of culture and literary taste." - R Austin Freeman, "The Art of the Detective Story"
I try for taste, you understand,
and read sonnets,
collect novels that reap plaudits.
I accept manna from God's hand.
But often my taste reflects the dark mass
of office girls and workshop boys,
and so I fly like Lucifer, alas,
to folk fiction and pulpy joys.
Elysia's bookshelves...
I try for taste, you understand,
and read sonnets,
collect novels that reap plaudits.
I accept manna from God's hand.
But often my taste reflects the dark mass
of office girls and workshop boys,
and so I fly like Lucifer, alas,
to folk fiction and pulpy joys.
Elysia's bookshelves...
#art
#books
#PopCulture #reading
#PopCulture #reading
95 reads
3 Comments
dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
23rd Jan 2025 00:19am
23rd Jan 2025 00:19am
just thinking ..
boswell was a sex obsessed but god fearing
bloke sitting next to him in the inn was johnson who had
his own ideas about everything can be discussed
in the pub but boz, he says, get the drinks in ..
bloke sitting next to him in the inn was johnson who had
his own ideas about everything can be discussed
in the pub but boz, he says, get the drinks in ..
#books
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