She walks among books as if they are flowers
Picking the dust from their parched leaves
like the busy bumblebee seeking for pollen.
Breathless She caress the patchy pages
to feel their scent her favored perfume,
and the texture of their numbered petals.
She hears the song The Silence- with glee,
evading the moonlight in her daily course
No bird sings in her hallowed garden.
No poets praise her unchanging beauty
but all poems she takes to herself,
she reigns lonely and terrible in her Helicon.
She is never lost but she never leaves
Nor greets any visitor with her pale hello,
absently wandering near her chilly stroke.
The seedbed is sterile, yet she still rejoices
Winter never leaves, Winter never arrives,
her flowers still colorful as they never were.
She dances her feet barely touch the ground,
serene she never closes her eyes not once,
her fortune clasped closely to her still chest.
As a confined moth wriggling her wings in a fray
- restless she unfolds her arms and gazes
mirrors incapable to reflect her own pale face.
She walks among books as if they are flowers
Flipping their pages without rest, without break,
in deadly splendor after every lonely midnight.
A contest entry
- ANYTHING! Seriously ANYTHING! by A Murderous Lament.
390 points, ended April 2, 2007, 75 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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Great.
This is really beautiful. I love it. Maybe because I can realate to it so much. Wonderful write. Truley! Adding you to the finalists
A MURDEROUS LAMENT <\33 -
I like books alot too! I'm not sure if i would go to this extreme though. Anyway, nice poem. I like how you say "She dances – her feet barely touch the ground"
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There must be a relationship between this girl and Joao I know since both of them are so much into books! Wont you give me the key of your library?
by the way, I remember how much I missed your poems. Like always it was a great poem you shared with us. Thank you, my friend and best of luck in the contest :-)
~Massy~
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She seems so alone, but for the words written in the books, the scent of the flowers, and your love for her to have written of her at all. She's wonderful.
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perfect
i can just picture it. lonely but happy in a place all her own. never leaving the world of paper and ink where imagination can take flight. excellent job
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I truly enjoyed reading this
poem. It is so lovely, and written
extremely well. I am an avid book
lover, so this piece of work fell
easily into my heart. Good luck
with the contest Love, Lane
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I absolutely loved this! Your flow was excellent and the idea was such a capturing one, it truely pulled me in. Your description was wonderful, especially in your introduction and just the way you carried everything throughout was perfect. Excellent job on this, I'm glad I got to read it. Goodluck in the contest you entered.
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