Shawn L. Bird

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1. burningthewillow Says:

   December 8, 2013 at 10:47 pm

   Reminded me of a poem of mine. Hope it’s ok to share here…

   Not Literature

   What filigree your letters loop!
   Such calculated confidence in each blooming capitol
   Like someone wound some days around
   your pages, and I’m treasuring these words

   You’re creased in consequential places
   dog-eared at each chapter, your length long-winded
   in the right way, edited so we only see the words
   within the chapters, numbered and bound

   Still, each time I read you with more care
   Your pages frailing, gilt-edged only gently
   And the corners of the chapter heads
   only serve to age you, and remind me that I’m not the first to read

   Sometimes I scrutinize you, see the scrawl
   beneath the printed weight, the lonely palimpsest
   You’ve carried for these decades
   The weightier of stories told-the first edition only I have seen

   I read these deeper words, praying to see my name
   inscribed beneath the ordered lines, some sentiment
   Perhaps renamed so only you and I can tell
   These stories are our stories, novel in the ways we are alive

   But I am only tertiary, an afterthought to sell the plot
   I’m gone within a scene and so I close you
   With a dusty puff of pages opened rarely
   and understood or read so much the less

   You are not literature nor am I champion or swain.

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   • Shawn L. Bird Says:

     December 8, 2013 at 11:02 pm

     Zowie.

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     • burningthewillow Says:

       December 13, 2013 at 8:30 pm

       Hopefully that’s a good kinda zowie…
2. matthewexeter Says:

   December 9, 2013 at 3:58 am

   I have not written in this way for a long time

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3. seanbidd Says:

   December 9, 2013 at 4:16 pm

   What’s the current page like?

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4. wbdeejay Says:

   December 9, 2013 at 6:50 pm

   And the story continues…

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5. kgbethlehem Says:

   December 20, 2013 at 8:46 pm

   nice poem here, enjoyed reading it..

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   • Shawn L. Bird Says:

     December 20, 2013 at 8:57 pm

     Thanks

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