It's Poetry Friday, and Mary Lee Hahn is hosting HERE on her blog, A(nother) Year of Reading, with some intriguing words about 'secrets'. Be sure to see what she and her 'inklings' have to say about them.
And, it's Groundhog Day! I don't have a poem about that, but I hope that someone will! Thanks for hosting, Mary Lee!
It's rather nice that Mary Lee's hosting from "A(nother) Year of Reading" because I have a poem about books. You probably know I work at a used bookstore. It's a non-profit run entirely by volunteers. And, it is a membership store, though you do not have to be a member. People join for a year and receive a certain number of credits to 'spend' on nearly all the books in the store, and when some are priced (we list on Amazon), they get 15% off of that price. It has hundreds of titles and is a place one seems unable to leave without a book! We rely entirely on donations which, if you donate, you can add to your credits! We do purchase a few best-sellers for one shelf and take special orders. I wish each of you could come visit!
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My Appetite
Books give a soda fizz,
sweet icing on a cake,
salt and pepper in a stew,
a chocolate ice cream shake,
Books taste like lollipops,
mint by the garden wall,
first strawberry ripe and read,
pasta with a huge meatball.
Books know the tang of lime;
they don’t forget the spice.
They flavor dim sum pages.
Their menu’s worth the price.
Linda Baie ©
I'm ready for another year of reading! 📚
23 comments:
This is a delicious poem, Linda. Ripe and read, indeed!
Oh this is excellent - it gave me a soda fizz just reading it. Thank you!
YUM! and YES! and, I love this...all the fizz and flavors...lime, even. This is wonderful.
Linda, this poem is delicious. Very fun.
LOVE this one, Linda!!! And it's SO cool that you work in a secondhand bookstore. "first strawberry ripe and read" = brilliant. :) YUM
Linda, this is a wonderful poem and that last line is a "goody". I'll taste my books and see if they are just as delicious. You should post this on World Read Aloud Day that is coming up.
Thanks, everyone. I'm in & out today, will get to your posts soon! This poem is going to become a new favorite of mine, book lover that I am!
Linda, I adore that poem! No better combination than books and food. Your poem positively sizzles!
Linda, I love all the flavors--sweet and savory--that books add to life. It is delicious to think about this!
Your joy for books spills through the (internet) page, Linda!
Gosh I love so many lines in this poem! "mint by the garden wall" and "they flavor dim sum pages." Would love to visit your bookstore someday.
Ooh, Linda! I feel like you should print this out and frame it and hang it at the bookstore. I'm guessing all your co-volunteers and customers would agree!
YUM! Perfection. I'll have to come visit your bookstore next time I'm in CO!!
Thanks, everyone. I hope you can visit, Mary Lee. It's raining today, supposed to change to snow, a great day to 'you know what', read a good book!
Yummy descriptions of all that books offer us!
Diane (aka newtreemom)
Books are delicious! I just read The Age of Innocence and traveled to 1870's New York which was quite a journey in time. Your bookstore seems a perfect place to spend time where there is always something to learn and where "The menu's worth the price."
Linda: I so agree! I can't leave the library without perusing the freebies by the door, and now my grandgirls are the same! Books ARE delicious! I love your dim sum and tang. I'm leaping from book to book lately.
This makes me wish I lived closer to Denver. I want to visit your bookstore!
Again, thanks for everyone's comments! I wish you all could fly right over!
I must echo everyone else and say that your poem is delicious! :D And I so wish I could pop into your store today, this very minute. (Well, it's 7:15 am, so maybe not this very minute, but...) :) Thanks for this lift!
Your bookstore sounds delightful! I've always harbored a secret wish to work in a bookstore :-). Your poem is a wonderful homage to all the things that books can be, and all the worlds and experiences that books can open up to us. Thanks for sharing it with us!
You have good taste indeed, Linda! All your delectable descriptions have me drooling, but I think the book I like the most is that saucy fellow, "pasta with a huge meatball" - reminds me of my Antonio! :)
Thanks, Molly, Karen, & Elisabeth! Bridget, I just saw Antonio on a shelf the other day!
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