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Belden Poems - Poems about Belden


Premium Member Nancy Drew
...After I read all of the Trixie Belden books I could find My aunt Janice allowed me to read one of her Nancy Drew books She had a book case filled with them. She was chintzy with them, only allowed......

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Categories: belden, books,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Trixie Belden Books
...Trixie Belden was a marvelous book find for me. She was a blonde dynamo with Encyclopedia Brown’s talent For finding, following, and solving mysteries delightfully female with Honey, her sidekick ......

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Categories: belden, books,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Back In the Day
...Before Matilda, before Harry Potter and Hermione Granger, When I was a child, there was Pippi Longstocking, full of danger. Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden were my mystery go-to books. You could not ......

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Categories: belden, books,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Preteens Reading Preferences
...Mystery books have been devoured by preteens since the fifties. I remember graduating from Nancy Drew to Trixie Belden. Or maybe it was the other way around. In eighth grade I discovered Agatha Ch......

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Categories: belden, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member How I Spent Summer of 1964
...The summer of 1964 I spend in a tree with cats Reading Trixie Belden and Nancy Drew Discovering Agatha Christie While I spy on the neighbors Mr. and Mrs. Dellabetta are in their nineties. Th......

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Categories: belden, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Heros
... Laura Ingles Wilder Her prose were milder Than poetry or verse Intended to coearce Louisa May Alcott Wrote tales I bought About women and boys With hearts sure to poise Miss Na......

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Categories: belden, books, childhood, children, write,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Everyone Did Not Have a Tv Or a Car
...When I was your age I walked sixty two miles to school and back Because our horse was dead, or given only to my brothers. We did not get to wear pants, even if our legs were red with frost. Until ......

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Categories: belden, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Love In a Full Blown Puppy Way
...My crushes are so numerable, it is crazy to try to remember them all. When I love you it’s in a full blown puppy way, in your lap with Tarzan’s call. Sky King, Mighty Mouse, Bugs Bunny, The Pink Pa......

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Categories: belden, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Light
...The desert at sunset, comes alive in the dying light The cool quickening breezes, glimmering in light White sand beach, the foaming surf effervesces Dark caves under waves—edges churning light ......

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Categories: belden, fire, light, sun,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member Scented Leaves
...A rainy autumn day when memories come calling, ushered in like the gently perused pages of a Victorian novel, read with a cup of steaming cocoa are the scented leaves of my life st......

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Categories: belden, inspiration, introspection, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Book From My Childhood
...A Trixie Belden Mystery Novel! lost in the bowels of the closet Opened the missive slowly. Felt like coming home Smell you can get nowhere else From nothing else Wafted into my nostrils. T......

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Categories: belden, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Library Favorites
... As a kid, I loved reading “Nancy Drew” and “Trixie Belden” mysteries. As a teen I couldn’t ingest enough mythology; dragons, dwarves, elves, gnomes, centaurs and fairies were pure gold f......

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Categories: belden, appreciation, literature, mystery, myth,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member A Gum Shoe Is What I Want To Be
...In my child’s mind a gumshoe sleuth detective that would be me. Nancy Drew or Ms. Marple, invented by Agatha Christie. Trixie Belden and Honey too, there were so many choices you see. I spent ......

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Categories: belden, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Pirate Self
...I’ve been a pirate since I was seven And read Pippi Longstockings. I’ve been a pirate since Swiss Family Robinson came onto the Screen, and I was allowed to see it. I’ve been a pirate since ......

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Categories: belden, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things