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luminosity
Senior Member

since 2005-11-18

Posts 813

0 posted 2012-02-29 03:06 PM

I pick up the leather clad volume,
its feel familiar to my fingers,
flip open the slippery pages,
get comfortable, and one word
one verse at a time I proceed.

Sometimes advancing too fast
makes back tracking
and retracing my steps necessary,

but it matters not the time
it takes to get there
for I know that no matter where I start
the finish will be a resting place
for me.

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2012-02-29 03:14 PM

Leather clad volumes. There is something magical about that special kind of book. Whatever the content of the book, the mere fact that it had been leather clad is an enormous feeling of the lover of word. Nice poetry.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

luminosity
Senior Member

since 2005-11-18

Posts 813

2 posted 2012-02-29 03:27 PM

thanks Jerry

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

3 posted 2012-02-29 09:46 PM

Ah, my dear friend....

a daughter clad leather onto
a Kindle, and then a Kindle Fire,
and I pick up volumes a day
and delve into libraries
and am smitten...

by her love,
and my love
of books...
and yet, my shelves heave
of those I shan't be rid of.

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

4 posted 2012-03-01 10:50 AM

Very, very beautiful. The Bible, I presume.

Owl

luminosity
Senior Member

since 2005-11-18

Posts 813

5 posted 2012-03-01 03:04 PM

sunshine, ah yes there are so many treasures in the written word

Owlsa, yes you presume right, when uneasy, when unable to sleep...all I have to do is start to read and it all melts away...sigh

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

6 posted 2012-03-13 03:15 PM

The delicacy of the thin pages are an invitation to slow down and let it comfort us and guide us to that resting place. *S*

Beautiful work, dear friend!! ((Hugs))

luminosity
Senior Member

since 2005-11-18

Posts 813

7 posted 2012-03-13 07:26 PM

thank you lady, where have you been?

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

8 posted 2012-03-13 09:57 PM

Fine writing...James

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

9 posted 2012-03-14 07:13 PM

I love the feel of this poem.
It touches the heart.
So true.

JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

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