Popular Poems About Books

been reading my way
through the
british library crime classics
and some

are great and some
ain’t
ever going to know unless
you read ‘em      ..

Browsing for knowledge
as a child of the 1970's
was a magical sensorial adventure
the most up-to-date data,
at my fingertips,
current to the early sixties,
made all the more accessible
on the lowest bookshelf
in a 100 pound collection
of Coliers Encyclopedias,
such a whimsical word
for an eight-year-old to say

On any given Summer's day
I'd forego outside play
and in my PJ's stay
selecting one of the hefty,
black, red-labeled tomes
their alphabetical range
in gold letters on the...

Do apologies from a liar
have any value?

Are promises void
when made to the deceitful?

Can you betray
the betrayer?