Lots of rain, a bit of a headache all day and several nights of insomnia take their toll on this Bookgirl. So the only reading I could do today was from one of my favorite poetry collections, Poetry 180. Below is one poem I really enjoyed.
Hope you enjoy it and hopefully more book talk tomorrow.
Lines
By Martha Collins
Draw a line. Write a line. There.
Stay in line, hold the line, a glance
between the lines is fine but don’t
turn corners, cross, cut in, go over
or out, between two points of no
return’s a line of flight, between
two points of view’s a line of vision.
But a line of thought is rarely
straight, an open line’s no party
line, however fine your point.
A line of fire communicates, but drop
your weapons and drop your line,
consider the shortest distance from x
to y, let x be me, let y be you.
Sorry you have not been feeling/sleeping well. Get better soon!
Get better soon! We have lots of rain over here too… which is strange because this usually occurs towards year end.
Oh, I very much like this.
Love it! I really need to get my hands on Poetry 180.
That rain WAS rough yesterday! I enjoyed the poem, though. Stay dry. 🙂
Wow, I really like this poem. I love plays on words. Very cool.
Hope you feel better soon!
Really enjoyed that poem. Might have to add Poetry 180 to my book list!
Raining here as well. Promotes a feeling of apathy! I hope that you are feeling much better today.
Insomnia really is the bitter end, isn’t it? Nothing knocks me back like a bad night’s sleep. I hope yours soon gets itself sorted.
Thanks so much everyone! I got a bit more sleep last night so that really helped and today it’s a beautiful sunny day 🙂 Off to bookbinding class… Pictures coming soon.
I’m not a big poetry fan, but you always find such interesting poems to quote. Love that one!
Hope your head’s better. Mine is pounding, today.
Nancy, aka Bookfool – Oh no, hope your headache goes away soon!
Get well soon – I’m not usually a big poetry fan – but I really liked that one!
How funny that last night as I was drifting off to sleep and trying to remember a line to a poem, I decided to get out my poetry books and begin reading poetry again. I even added “read some poetry” to my TO DO list! And then to find this great poem…very synchronicitous!
Mrs. S – Thank you! The headache went away 🙂 Glad you liked the poem!
Jenclair – Isn’t it fun when that happens? It’s so funny, I don’t read poetry nearly as much as I’d like to and that always strikes me as strange as I love it so much. I think with poetry I feel like I have to be more aware of the writing to fully get it whereas with a novel I can just sink in.