Tales From The Cabin That Smokes: Book Twelve...Boarded Book Shop Blues...

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Tales From The Cabin That Smokes: Book Twelve...Boarded Book Shop Blues...

Bluesy Socrateaser
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since 2002-11-07

Posts 2417
In The Mirror

0 posted 2017-11-29 12:09 PM

Don’t judge by the book sales, but consider only the power of poetry
Verse floods the earth with all too many details...like a complicated code
Prose is poured ‘til the reader's calloused eyes can take no more
Sometimes, we set our words to music
Sometimes, we measure our words out on teaspoons
Sometimes, we compromise and whittle them into haiku

As our readers search our poems for hidden meanings
they may find the ground of our garden is poorly sown,
the grave topsoil yielding nothing new or different
The dramatic crypts and infectiously constructed stanzas
don’t do justice to the poet’s headstone inscriptions anymore
So my friends, do not be one to judge by the book sales,
only the power of poetry that rests within

...just bein' Bluesy

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2017-11-29 05:04 AM

Bluesy, your poems always get me to thinkin'. Can you hear my gears grindin'?
No, seriously you make a good point and I wholeheartedly agree. ~L

Bluesy Socrateaser
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since 2002-11-07

Posts 2417
In The Mirror

2 posted 2017-11-29 11:57 PM

It pleases me to know you found something of value in my effort, Lori Rhoden. You're a gem!

Many thanks!

...just bein' Bluesy

Poet In Pink
Senior Member
Posts 1066
MI

3 posted 2017-12-05 06:19 PM

This brings to mind something like quality...Not quantity...I like the message in this Bluesy ~ No truer words were ever spoken Thanks for sharing your thoughts

Bluesy Socrateaser
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since 2002-11-07

Posts 2417
In The Mirror

4 posted 2017-12-06 12:13 PM

Thanks, Miss Pinky. I took a slightly different take on the old saying; "Don't judge a book by its cover".

Thanks again!

...just bein' Bluesy

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