Poems About Reading Seeking Honest Critique
#reading
dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
3rd Oct 2024 00:27am
3rd Oct 2024 00:27am
a skimmer of stones on the surface of knowledge
a mere dilettante, of course,
I struggle to look deeper
into the pond, when there are
so many rivers
I struggle to look deeper
into the pond, when there are
so many rivers
#reading
104 reads
1 Comment
PAR
Poem Published
25th Sep 2024 5:15pm
25th Sep 2024 5:15pm
Almost Sylvia Plath
To endure and not spill at all.
I abandoned myself like a patchwork.
And I peel the epidermis from me like pomegranate seeds.
I juggled once more.
A sort of wandering spectacle, my exit
A captive without parchment,
detain the scarf.
The persona, the jointed hollows, the array of molars?
Soon, on strike the steak
And I, a lady, a superior lady.
This is the ceramic femur.
What a billion embellishments.
They flay my palms and soles—
These were my fingers
My elbows, no, my elbows ache.
Yet...
I abandoned myself like a patchwork.
And I peel the epidermis from me like pomegranate seeds.
I juggled once more.
A sort of wandering spectacle, my exit
A captive without parchment,
detain the scarf.
The persona, the jointed hollows, the array of molars?
Soon, on strike the steak
And I, a lady, a superior lady.
This is the ceramic femur.
What a billion embellishments.
They flay my palms and soles—
These were my fingers
My elbows, no, my elbows ache.
Yet...
#LifeAsAWriter
#MyInspiration
#PowerOfWords
#reading
#WritingPoetry
89 reads
3 Comments
PAR
Poem Published
24th Sep 2024 11:26am
24th Sep 2024 11:26am
POP
there was something very scary.
in that look.
in those dilated pupils.
in that drooling dead mouth.
all, all, all open and receptive.
In the background, someone said a linguistic gem.
as if the music had stopped being heard.
I found you strange and continued my way along the gallery walls.
an endless stream of still lifes.
Everything about that scene brought to mind paintings.
by some unknown pop art artists.
in that look.
in those dilated pupils.
in that drooling dead mouth.
all, all, all open and receptive.
In the background, someone said a linguistic gem.
as if the music had stopped being heard.
I found you strange and continued my way along the gallery walls.
an endless stream of still lifes.
Everything about that scene brought to mind paintings.
by some unknown pop art artists.
#art
#freedom
#passion
#reading
#travel
93 reads
4 Comments
Casted_Runes
Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
4th Aug 2024 1:16am
4th Aug 2024 1:16am
Relating to Genius
I haven’t felt closer to great poets
than when I heard that Dylan Thomas
liked to eat sweets and consume detective stories
in the bath. To where his wife would hide
the books in hope that he’d sit down to work instead.
I may never write an Under Milk Wood,
but I’ll be reading classic crime
with dolly mix until I’m dead.
than when I heard that Dylan Thomas
liked to eat sweets and consume detective stories
in the bath. To where his wife would hide
the books in hope that he’d sit down to work instead.
I may never write an Under Milk Wood,
but I’ll be reading classic crime
with dolly mix until I’m dead.
#reading
133 reads
5 Comments
VictorDLopez
Poem Published
18th Jul 2024 11:55pm
18th Jul 2024 11:55pm
Poem announcing free eBooks through July 31
As my thanks to all,
I've made all of my eBooks,
On sale for July.
Single stories free,
Full books 25 percent off,
Through end of July.
Includes poetry,
Also fiction collections,
And my novel too.
Not all retailers,
Will honor the sale this month,
A number, though, will.
Smashwords honors all,
Includes law-related books,
Check out all below.
Thank you in advance,
For your support, dear readers,
Hope you'll view the sale.
Smashwords link to my eBooks...
I've made all of my eBooks,
On sale for July.
Single stories free,
Full books 25 percent off,
Through end of July.
Includes poetry,
Also fiction collections,
And my novel too.
Not all retailers,
Will honor the sale this month,
A number, though, will.
Smashwords honors all,
Includes law-related books,
Check out all below.
Thank you in advance,
For your support, dear readers,
Hope you'll view the sale.
Smashwords link to my eBooks...
#books
#gratitude
#haiku #reading
#haiku #reading
129 reads
0 Comments
dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
7th Jul 2024 11:42pm
7th Jul 2024 11:42pm
one likes to come across odd books and stuff
serendipity in a second hand bookshop is less of a thing than
it was, because of the internet I
guess unexpectedly coming
across a second hand bookshop
is serendipitous enough
it was, because of the internet I
guess unexpectedly coming
across a second hand bookshop
is serendipitous enough
#reading
115 reads
7 Comments
MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
23rd Jun 2024 1:13am
23rd Jun 2024 1:13am
The Sammelband Dream
I saw two dark volumes of ancient text
with their cover boards in a collate twist
and old water damage that left them flexed,
which is just the thing no scholar can resist.
They were under an old magazine stack
of surplus National Geographics
and a Britannica set, on a rack,
with an undiscovered script of Sapphics.
They were the totem midnight mind précis
of all the old books I will never read
or quick scan on a literary spree,
were I an immortal cranked up on speed.
...
with their cover boards in a collate twist
and old water damage that left them flexed,
which is just the thing no scholar can resist.
They were under an old magazine stack
of surplus National Geographics
and a Britannica set, on a rack,
with an undiscovered script of Sapphics.
They were the totem midnight mind précis
of all the old books I will never read
or quick scan on a literary spree,
were I an immortal cranked up on speed.
...
#books
#LifeAsAWriter
#passion #reading
#passion #reading
159 reads
2 Comments
PurrfectlyPoetic
Purr
Purr
Poem Published
9th Jun 2024 8:56pm
9th Jun 2024 8:56pm
A Short story of submission
#BDSM
#erotic
#passion
#reading
#seductive
377 reads
5 Comments
dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
14th Apr 2024 11:14pm
14th Apr 2024 11:14pm
there’s something still to do
like to keep a book
by the bed
I wish to read, although
maybe
not
yet
I think
I’ll continue to live
whilst I have something
still to do
by the bed
I wish to read, although
maybe
not
yet
I think
I’ll continue to live
whilst I have something
still to do
#reading
107 reads
3 Comments
dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
7th Apr 2024 11:31pm
7th Apr 2024 11:31pm
all it took
flicking through london in the seventeen hundreds like a quick visit to a bawdy house
and all it took was to put
down the book and say hello,
darling, I’m back
and all it took was to put
down the book and say hello,
darling, I’m back
#reading
117 reads
3 Comments
dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
5th Apr 2024 11:15pm
5th Apr 2024 11:15pm
sighing, he puts down his book
had a power cut last night, but my wife has candles in the house, so I wasn’t too worried, but it’s hard to find them in the dark if they’re not already alight
#reading
116 reads
1 Comment
MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
4th Apr 2024 8:09pm
4th Apr 2024 8:09pm
Brand New Illiteracy
With no more reverence for script
we are like the Eloi now
amid old books which won't endow
aloof cerebra ill equipped
to see the future much improved
from Anthropocentric shambles
and apocalyptic brambles
no lords of order have approved
for any Eden garden plot
on this or any other Earth,
steadfast for merriment and mirth
and by no petrodollar bought.
Come what may...we must ever read
if from that doom we would be freed.
we are like the Eloi now
amid old books which won't endow
aloof cerebra ill equipped
to see the future much improved
from Anthropocentric shambles
and apocalyptic brambles
no lords of order have approved
for any Eden garden plot
on this or any other Earth,
steadfast for merriment and mirth
and by no petrodollar bought.
Come what may...we must ever read
if from that doom we would be freed.
#CallToAction
#freedom
#responsibility #reading
#responsibility #reading
189 reads
4 Comments
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