[NicknamedBob]

In celebration of book day ...

Books

Books in boxes. Books in racks.
Books in hallways. Books in stacks.
Books on shelves and closets tall.
Books on every patch of wall.

Books where sunlight makes them fade.
Books around that I’ve mislaid.
Books my wife has gathered in.
Books beginning now to win.

Taking over in my life,
Books now keep me from my wife.
In the doorway of the den,
Stacks of books have grown again.

I go around the other way,
Easing back to hit the hay.
Unless subtly they have crept,
Into the space where once I slept.

Striving now to find a nook,
Not encumbered by a book,
I subside into my chair,
To find a book is waiting there.

Some few minutes reading now,
Will help me with my sleep somehow.
And when I nod and stiffly wake,
I’ve lost my place, for Heaven’s Sake!

NicknamedBob . . . . . August 30, 2007

[Billie]

Thanks for the cute Book poem, nnb - looks like I missed that holiday when I posted today's, but honestly I used two calendar sites, and it wasn't there.

[gardengirl]

Love that poem, NnB! Have you been in my house?! LOL I think I have more books than the library! And I swear they move/multiply when I’m not looking!

My hubby looks at me and says—didn’t you already read that?
Well...yeah.
How many times have you read that particular book?
Well... Most times I jsut say 5 or 6. He’d have a stroke if I told him how many times I’d really read “that” one!

Every couple of weeks I clean out his den and put all my books back on the shelf/closet. They—somehow—wind up back in his den, and the process starts all over!