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POEM STARTER
Write a poem with the title “Overheard in the Library”.
As well-renowned places of quiet, any conversations had in libraries tend to carry!
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Conchita debemos to speak totalmente in English
cuando we go into Sears okay Por qué
Porque didn’t you hear lo que pasó It say
on the eleven o’clock news anoche que two robbers
was caught in Sears and now this is the part
I’m not completely segura que I got everything
porque channel 2 tiene tú sabes that big fat guy
that’s hard to understand porque his nose sit on his lip
like a elefante p...
Leaving. The door bristles with the wind’s brush. Anti-hero? You tell me what? I am the way out the door when you verbal whip comes to play. I’m the problem. Why? I love love. I bleed for my fellow Americans. I bleed purple, the mixture of red and blue. We have to merge to diverge.
Tea? He didn’t fuck his patient. Should that not be enough? Tell you my secrets? Was it love? It was music. It was c...
Her eyes
Caught mine
The silence
Entwined between the shelves
Reduced to
This one moment
I blink
And she’s gone
She’s running
To her home
To her world
To someone who isn’t me
I catch
Their whispers:
“How about I take you to dinner?”
“Sure! I’d love that.”
The smile in her voice
Breaks a sacred rule
Screaming in my mind
They leave
And I don’t realize
The binding I’d ripped...
I walked towards the library
To pick up a new book
But as I turned the corner
I didn’t like the look
Of people crowded inside
I could overhear their chatter
I picked up on the word “closing”
And clearly it would matter
And then again I heard that word
Coming from my right
I saw a sad librarian
It wasn’t a pleasant sight
I asked her what was happening
Why she felt so low
And then that’s when s...
A favorite place
the expectation of solitude
but not today
They are thinking so loudly
Don’t they know the unwritten rule of silence?
Older man: I woke up next to my cold, dead wife
Child: I want to read good
Young Woman: What I would give to not be barren!
Teenage Boy: Why do I have feelings for him?
Elderly Woman: The money won’t buy me time
I want to tell them
although pain runs deep
it r...
Hi, my name is Jameson, but my friends call me JJ. I’m 12, but my birthday is in a few days, Friday, February 19th! It’s only a few days away, as it’s Tuesday, February 16th. Anyways, I was going about my school day like normal, and during my time in the library I overheard something exciting!
First off, I have to explain about how IMPORTANT this birthday is. It’s not just any old birthday, it’s ...
Hush hush… first rule of a library.
Our minds be the loudest though.
Had an extremely loud mind that needed a space to relax and sink in the reality of my living.
So I walk into this.. Library.
Everyone’s glued to something.
Something to learn, read, research.. or jus sit in peace.
I was ofcourse one of them.
I had developed reading a bit late into my 20s and was struggling to keep my focus on...
Walking feet in the library.
WALKING FEET.
Of course you can get dinosaur books.
No, you can’t get that one.
Because it’s a hundred and forty pages.
When you can read, you can get that book.
A book on pterosaurs?
Yes, you read that pterosaur book already.
Yes, you read that pterosaur book already.
No, I didn’t know your pet Quetzalcoatlus has the largest wingspan ever.
No, you didn’t rea...
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