BookLife

What a book represents and what images come to mind when I hear the word "book."

BookLife

 

A book is bottle

A message for the future

Tossed in the sea of time

It is a madness you

Can walk away from

Words without fear

A book is butterfly

With paper wings

And inkblot feathers

A brief existence

Between its pages

Becomes a lifetime

It is the flutter of fingers

The heartbeat of letters

A splash of secrets

Drenched in the distant

Sound of memories

A book is the promise

Of something better

Made real if only

Between the pages

Of my eyes.

 

-Zoe Richardson (2021)

Reviews

[Shelley Warner]

Yes, a book is all those things.

[Carlos Lorenzo Estrada]

illuminating words and it speaks to the power of writing. Because it has the ability to enter the heart of the reader and profoundly change them. It is as a writer our source of immortality. We will always occupy that space in a person's soul unless a greater idea and moving words take our place, but even still our memory remains. I still remember the books and stories of my youth that had great impact on my writing to this day. Thank you for sharing your work Zoe. It is a reminder of why we write.

[Zoe Richardson]

I remember the power of every book that ever moved me, even if I don't recall the exact words they contained. In a world where sharing images seems to be all people care about, we forget how powerful and restorative the written word can be.