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Why I Keep A Notebook

March 26, 2013
By LaraBeth BRONZE, Camden, Tennessee
LaraBeth BRONZE, Camden, Tennessee
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Favorite Quote:
"Demonic in your motive, your pretty eyes don't know that the water flowing from this well isn't fresh." -Flyleaf


The paper from the old notebook, crinkled and worn, blew over one after another like the old man shuffling his deck of cards.
A deck of cars shuffles in the old man's hand like the crinkled paper from an old notebook.
The old man's wrinkled hands once held the pen that gave the crinkled paper in the old notebook its charm.
The old notebook's charm slowly fading as the crinkled paper yellows.
The yellowing paper blows in the wind of the wrinkly old man's creaking fan.
The creaking fan blows the shuffling deck of cards from the old man's wrinkled hands onto the dusty and worn floor.
The wrinkled old man's hands skitter across the floor picking up the yellowed cards one by one as the pages of the old notebook stop turning.
The old man's wrinkled hands grasps the old notebook filled with wrinkled and worn pages and reads across an old but familiar page.
An old familiar page about his old familiar wife brought tears to his eyes.
The tears brought to his eyes by the yellowing crinkled and worn pages inspired his old wrinkled hands to turn yet another page in that old yet familiar notebook.


The author's comments:
When my Flights leader told us to write a fourteener with one of the five random, non-related sentences I found the descriptive sentence about the paper blowing in the wind more appealing than the sentence about my mother going to the market for milk. Who knows how a poem or story can evolve so beautifully from a single sentence descriptive or not?

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