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Ever Forever

March 7, 2012
By fictionlover98 SILVER, Summerville, Pennsylvania
fictionlover98 SILVER, Summerville, Pennsylvania
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Favorite Quote:
Creativity takes courage. ~Matisse


The smell is rustic, old,
But the content is as fresh as ever,
The casing once blue, is faded,
The name has long ago worn away,
But the content is as lovely as ever,
It's pages rustle softly-crinkle-crinkle,
They whisper their stories to me,
I lie there-absorbing their wisdom,
The words are quiet, hardly there,
But the content is as lively as ever,
Their long forgotten tales I leave behind,
Put on a book shelf for unknown time,
But their stories will be their forever.


The author's comments:
My local library was my inspiration for this piece. They have many books and shelves and sometimes I like to wander down the rows and pick up random books. One time I happened to pick up a book that had no name and a dusty old cover. So my curiosity got the better of me and I opened it up to a random page. Inside were many different poems and short stories written by anonymous authors. I thought it was so interesting that a book without a name full of unknown author's poems happened to be the book that I picked up that I wrote this poem.
So I suppose what I want readers to get from my poem is that many things fade with time but words and curiosity don't. So keep writing, future generations and present ones will appreciate you.

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