Jan 15 2008
Unloved Books
Unloved books
line the wall.
Their smell calls
out to me.
Hand reaches
wants to touch.
I breathe in
yellow pages.
History.
Feel the love
of past reads.
And whisper
I’ll love you.
You are home.
copyright 2007
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Unloved books- sad…
This poem is my heart at the book section in the thriftstore.
mine too. i simply can’t resist used books or books of any kind. they are filled with wonder, information, love, hate - everything. who can live without them?
sarah
Pretty brill.
You’d love ‘The Long Room’ in Trinity (my college).
oh thanks, ben. i’m sure i would love the long room - i get an image of rows and rows of books. am i right? sounds wonderful.
sarah
See for yourself:
http://www.paddi.net/images/longroom.htm
gee ben, that is magnificent! i’d love to go there.
sarah
Dear Sarah!
Greetings!
I just can keep my hands away from my own library!
After a long search, I finally found a 990 pages book I had not read!
Bliss!
Cheers,
Robert-Gilles
hello robert!
what a wonderful find. 990 pages is quite the read - i can’t imagine writing a story that long.
sarah
Beautiful irony is that the “unloved books” are the most loved of all. You always have the perfect picture to go with the perfect poetry. You bring peace to my thoughts –you always have, S. I just wanted to stop by and remind you that you are inspiring. Ali
hello my dear one. you are so right, the unloved become the loved - a beautiful irony. oh dear, you need no inspiration, but i thank you just the same. i’m always here for you.
sarah
After I read this I sniffed a book on my shelf and sneezed… me thinks I should read more.
*giggle* maybe so, my friend, maybe so.
sarah
Hey there sunshine,
have to say I had a very hard time with the concept of ‘unloved books’, for of course I am one of those people who seems to think that if you cannot love books you’re not capable of love at all. (haha, just found a new philosophy! ). But this is a poem, and this is yours, and looking at it from that view, well, what can I say, you brought it/them home my friend. Well done. And a poem that needed to be written, there are so many poems in books but not enough poems about them. I hear mine whispering ‘thank you Sarah’.
spaz!
yes, unloved books is something other people do, right? i love unloved books because they almost always have hidden treasures and it’s so much fun to find them.
sarah
I agree. It’s like we may be moving soon and I’m thinking/hoping that maybe this time we’ll find a place that has some built ins. I’ve always wanted my own little library. And then finally after years of lugging them all around, they will ALL get their proper display.
kim
wow, that sounds exciting.
sarah
The books that is.
sarah
got it.
Hmmm, that and the secrets we know we’ll find!
yes, the secrets too - you’re so right, lolly.
sarah
There is nothing like an old book! The smell alone makes opening the covers worthwhile. What can be better than to be transported to another time and place through the power of another writer’s imagination?
-smith
my thoughts, precisely, smith.
sarah