our library (20170102)

Posted on January 2, 2017January 2, 2017 by crow

like ancient
desert worn parchment
where the text has faded

let me curl against you
let us fold up together

let there be no dry whisper
of fingertips smoothing
our edges
no
flattening us

let us spiral together
our stories winding about
one another

——

for dVerse ~ Poets Pub
Quadrille#23: curl

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54 thoughts on “our library (20170102)”

Nan Mykel January 2, 20179:13 pm

Oh, excellent! I love the treatment and the metaphor!
1. crow January 2, 201710:27 pm
  
  Thank you very much!
Björn Rudberg (brudberg) January 2, 201711:22 pm

The personification of the library and the books is excellent. Love it.
1. crow January 2, 201711:29 pm
  
  Thank you! 😀
NJ January 3, 201712:47 am

This is brilliant! Love it.
1. crow January 3, 20177:49 am
  
  Thank you! And thanks for stopping by. 😊
Poet Rummager January 3, 20172:31 am

That’s a library with which I’d like a membership! Beautiful words, Chuckie.
1. crow January 3, 20177:50 am
  
  I’m sure I’ll find you wandering the stacks, checking out the “art” books.
  1. Poet Rummager January 4, 20171:11 am
    
    I’m sure you’ll be checking out the racks……. of self help books.
  2. crow January 4, 20176:03 am
    
    Ha ha ha. That was a double whammy. You win 🤣
  3. Poet Rummager January 4, 20176:10 am
    
    Lol! Double whammy!! 🗻🗻 Gee, thanks boob.
  4. crow January 4, 20176:11 am
    
    Ooh, snow capped! My favorite mounds!
  5. Poet Rummager January 4, 20176:13 am
    
    🍼
  6. crow January 4, 20176:15 am
    
    OMG 😲!
  7. Poet Rummager January 4, 20176:17 am
    
    🌭 🍩
  8. crow January 4, 20177:03 am
    
    No, I can’t let that go unanswered.
    
    🌮🍆🍒
  9. Poet Rummager January 4, 20177:43 am
    
    Haha! Ah, 🚬
erbiage January 3, 20173:42 am

wornderful wrapping of your words around your subject. I was in a libraryish mood the other night as well. oh, and i’ll express my displeasure for spiral bindings (well, on books anyway)
1. crow January 3, 20177:51 am
  
  Thank you!
othermary January 3, 20174:15 am

Lovely use of curling and the image of pages of a book.
1. crow January 3, 20177:52 am
  
  Thank you. The prompt is responsible for the images.
Grace January 3, 20175:22 am

I love the curling, folding and spirally together ~ A creative approach to loving books ~ Happy new year!
1. crow January 3, 20177:52 am
  
  Happy New Year! Thank you for your kind words.
Laura Bloomsbury January 3, 20175:30 am

I read an analogy of old lovers with parchment skin in this wonderful whorl of words
1. crow January 3, 20177:58 am
  
  Then you got what my original idea was! Thanks for reading and commenting. 😀
  1. Laura Bloomsbury January 3, 20178:00 am
    
    Like bookends 🙂
Victoria Young January 3, 20179:02 am

Proud of your long journey as one. Beautiful metaphor!
1. crow January 3, 20179:04 am
  
  Thank you!
angieinspired January 3, 20179:35 am

book porn:) tastefully done
1. crow January 3, 20179:57 am
  
  I’ll have work on the les tasteful kind. But I won’t thrust it on anyone.
  
  See what I did there?
  1. angieinspired January 3, 20179:58 am
    
    ha ha ha. my kind of humor
whimsygizmo January 3, 20179:45 am

I love that “dry whisper,” especially.
1. crow January 3, 20179:59 am
  
  Thank you! I was just imagining that sound of your fingertips on old paper.
lillian January 3, 201710:15 am

ooooh, I do love this! The intertwining, our edges and our stories spiraling together…:)
1. crow January 3, 201712:16 pm
  
  I’m pleased you like it. Thanks so much for reading and commenting.
Oloriel January 3, 201711:01 am

Wow, so beautiful! Me saying anything else can just spoil it. I’m just going to read it again and go Awwwwwhh.
1. crow January 3, 201712:14 pm
  
  Thank you for your kind words.
Sanaa Rizvi (@rizvi_sanaa) January 3, 201711:28 am

This is my favorite so far 😀 I am literally swooning here ❤️
1. crow January 3, 201712:13 pm
  
  Swooning? Wow, thank you very much!
sarahsouthwest January 3, 20172:07 pm

I like this very much. Stories combining, creating something new and wonderful.
1. crow January 3, 20172:26 pm
  
  Thank you. I’m happy it spoke to you.
  1. sarahsouthwest January 3, 20172:31 pm
    
    I love the image of people as books – and books as people…
emariemon January 3, 20172:15 pm

I really like this one.Any poem that uses library, books and parchment imagery well is a work of art that I am bound to fall in love with.
1. crow January 3, 20172:27 pm
  
  Thank you! 🙏
frankhubeny January 3, 20173:29 pm

I like the idea of spiraling stories together.
1. crow January 3, 20173:31 pm
  
  Thank you. There’s just something compelling about a spiral.
merrildsmith January 4, 20174:17 am

I love this–and chuckling at some of the comments above. 🙂
1. crow January 4, 20176:09 am
  
  Thanks, M! This was a good poem for the new year.
  1. merrildsmith January 4, 20179:37 am
    
    Yes, it was.
Jane Dougherty January 4, 20174:57 am

Lovely sustained metaphor from my favourite crow 🙂
1. crow January 4, 20176:10 am
  
  Thank you, Jane 😀
lynn__ January 5, 20178:10 pm

Fresh thoughts on curling up with a book 😉
Rosemary Nissen-Wade January 6, 20172:21 am

Totally yummy and gorgeous!
1. crow January 6, 20176:04 am
  
  Thank you. 😁

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