Poems About Reading by Top Critiquers
#reading
faithmairee
Poem Published
18th May 2022 1:24pm
18th May 2022 1:24pm
Positively Preposterous
Today, I will start
Something new
It will be fresh
And original
Like no other project
Anywhere or anytime
As soon as I get
My nose out of this book
It could be fantastical
Or full of raw reality
There's no way
Of knowing
If it will fly
But I will try to do it
Giving it my best
Only thing is I can't get
My nose out of this book
Something new
It will be fresh
And original
Like no other project
Anywhere or anytime
As soon as I get
My nose out of this book
It could be fantastical
Or full of raw reality
There's no way
Of knowing
If it will fly
But I will try to do it
Giving it my best
Only thing is I can't get
My nose out of this book
#books
#reading
329 reads
7 Comments
PoetSpeak
Poem Published
5th Jul 2020 10:29pm
5th Jul 2020 10:29pm
Printed Matter
Wading through 6 months of New Yorker Mags
Awhile back I said I would read them
Of course I kept looking at the pile
Not reading just seeing the pile grow higher
I’m reading them now
2 to 3 articles per issue
The writing is good
The articles are long
There’s something beautifully old school
The physical object
Gives me pleasure, almost cosmic
Words with weight waiting in silence
Awhile back I said I would read them
Of course I kept looking at the pile
Not reading just seeing the pile grow higher
I’m reading them now
2 to 3 articles per issue
The writing is good
The articles are long
There’s something beautifully old school
The physical object
Gives me pleasure, almost cosmic
Words with weight waiting in silence
#reading
373 reads
12 Comments
wallyroo92
Poem Published
16th Jan 2020 10:06pm
16th Jan 2020 10:06pm
Soleils couchants
I heard this poem in a foreign tongue,
And instantly fell in love with the sound,
I memorized the verse like it was a song,
Proud of the ability I had found.
I struggle with the pronunciation,
My homely diction may not be the best,
Yet the poem gives me a fascination,
Because I like to recite it to myself.
I began to discover other works and text,
And pursued more of this foreign tongue,
Now I’m fixated on these silhouettes,
Like an old romantic who is feeling young.
Maybe it’s because it’s all so picturesque, ...
And instantly fell in love with the sound,
I memorized the verse like it was a song,
Proud of the ability I had found.
I struggle with the pronunciation,
My homely diction may not be the best,
Yet the poem gives me a fascination,
Because I like to recite it to myself.
I began to discover other works and text,
And pursued more of this foreign tongue,
Now I’m fixated on these silhouettes,
Like an old romantic who is feeling young.
Maybe it’s because it’s all so picturesque, ...
#love
#WritingPoetry
#reading
639 reads
4 Comments
Grace
IDryad
IDryad
Poem Published
19th Mar 2024 5:33pm
19th Mar 2024 5:33pm
Your Poem made me Cry
the blood from your broken heart
ink to the poem of lost love
your heartache tattooed in verses
sent dusts into my eyes
lost in time etched in memories
of a love that once embraced
your spirit, your soul, your mortality
only for him to leave
before you kissed the dawn
My tears fell for your pain
for your memories that ended
with a rose on a grave stone
and you stepping back alone
you are strong, indeed stronger
the pain like a forge to your spirit
screaming and crying to God
"Why did you...
ink to the poem of lost love
your heartache tattooed in verses
sent dusts into my eyes
lost in time etched in memories
of a love that once embraced
your spirit, your soul, your mortality
only for him to leave
before you kissed the dawn
My tears fell for your pain
for your memories that ended
with a rose on a grave stone
and you stepping back alone
you are strong, indeed stronger
the pain like a forge to your spirit
screaming and crying to God
"Why did you...
#WritingPoetry
#reading
113 reads
11 Comments
Ahavati
Poem Published
12th Jan 2020 3:13pm
12th Jan 2020 3:13pm
Give me something to look forward to
namely, Poetry
reverence and romance it;
take your time—
it’s not a magazine of bullets
diving from an AK-47;
or, a lonely one-nightly-stand
worthy of flippant responses
More importantly
wash its face—
comb its hair, brush its teeth
dress it appropriately;
don’t serve it half-baked—
give me poetry
worthy of reading
~
reverence and romance it;
take your time—
it’s not a magazine of bullets
diving from an AK-47;
or, a lonely one-nightly-stand
worthy of flippant responses
More importantly
wash its face—
comb its hair, brush its teeth
dress it appropriately;
don’t serve it half-baked—
give me poetry
worthy of reading
~
#LifeAsAWriter
#WritingPoetry
#reading #art
#reading #art
1034 reads
80 Comments
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
88 reads
4 Comments
brokentitanium
k.
k.
Poem Published
10th Oct 2019 4:16am
10th Oct 2019 4:16am
How Poetry ate my day.
It started with just a few breadcrumbs
Tasty morsels that led me tentatively out the door
just a little farther….
looking back nervously at my Task List
Just one more taste
and then I’ll go back
He pulled up all smiles and sweetness
saying here’s a Special Something I just know you’ll like...
But – All the Things – what about the Things I’m supposed to do?
I’ll serve you just what you need to get started, he said
I’ll have you back in a jiffy, he said
and with a glance over my shoulder at Responsibility
I said Ok,...
Tasty morsels that led me tentatively out the door
just a little farther….
looking back nervously at my Task List
Just one more taste
and then I’ll go back
He pulled up all smiles and sweetness
saying here’s a Special Something I just know you’ll like...
But – All the Things – what about the Things I’m supposed to do?
I’ll serve you just what you need to get started, he said
I’ll have you back in a jiffy, he said
and with a glance over my shoulder at Responsibility
I said Ok,...
#addiction
#WritingPoetry
#reading
462 reads
8 Comments
PAR
Poem Published
18th Jan 2023 1:47pm
18th Jan 2023 1:47pm
Idibera
Dawns the Autumn.
A Poem opens itself.
Some wings spread.
Flowers blooming
everywhere.
Eyes wide close.
Eyes of wide read.
Open, doors, letters.
Secret Diaries revealed.
Scars still beating.
Signs, gods, runes.
Above the waters
arrises the mist.
Days and waves
keep on building
its Cathedrals.
Sleeps
in my hand
a non-important
poem
an unknown name
carved in a stone.
Idibera is a name
for the thunderbolt
for the woman that rides
the...
A Poem opens itself.
Some wings spread.
Flowers blooming
everywhere.
Eyes wide close.
Eyes of wide read.
Open, doors, letters.
Secret Diaries revealed.
Scars still beating.
Signs, gods, runes.
Above the waters
arrises the mist.
Days and waves
keep on building
its Cathedrals.
Sleeps
in my hand
a non-important
poem
an unknown name
carved in a stone.
Idibera is a name
for the thunderbolt
for the woman that rides
the...
#storm
#narrative
#mythology
#tradition
#reading
224 reads
2 Comments
Cipher_O
Poem Published
11th Aug 2021 6:50pm
11th Aug 2021 6:50pm
Venti Dark Roast
A video I made for LilDragonFly's latest publication: Venti Dark Roast.
#books
#MyInspiration
#PowerOfWords
#passion
#reading
665 reads
4 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
40 reads
3 Comments
prometheus5290
Poem Published
6th Mar 2023 2:30pm
6th Mar 2023 2:30pm
Why I read
Some of my most valuable experiences
were other people's.
were other people's.
#reading
104 reads
4 Comments
Wafflenose
Ellie
Ellie
Poem Published
8th Apr 2022 4:28pm
8th Apr 2022 4:28pm
3am confessions of an inexhaustible mind
It's late.
Too many mental tabs are open.
The CPU runs at 100%;
the clock is being ignored.
I need to finish this book,
and a bunch of articles.
Oh, and all the word games!
Wait... did I pack P.E. kits?
Where is the music coming from?!
Struck by inspiration,
I seize a scrap of paper -
an old envelope - and feverishly scrawl.
Now... where was I?
This video is hilarious:
I must send it to my kids!
There's another song on repeat
as I text my friend
who is also awake,
though for a...
Too many mental tabs are open.
The CPU runs at 100%;
the clock is being ignored.
I need to finish this book,
and a bunch of articles.
Oh, and all the word games!
Wait... did I pack P.E. kits?
Where is the music coming from?!
Struck by inspiration,
I seize a scrap of paper -
an old envelope - and feverishly scrawl.
Now... where was I?
This video is hilarious:
I must send it to my kids!
There's another song on repeat
as I text my friend
who is also awake,
though for a...
#night
#music
#confessional
#reading
#NaPoWriMo2022
243 reads
21 Comments
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