One day you will pick it up
the way you had picked it up from the shelf in a bookshop.
Then it was brand new, smelling of print.
Then for many days, you basked with it in the sun, sitting by the window,
leaving it only when you needed a coffee break.
Then came a time when it gathered dust in a corner of a book-case.
One day now
you pick it up again.
You hate stains on anything that is immaculate.
You are startled by the stains on a certain page,
stubborn stains
left by the strawberries you carelessly put between its pages
as a bookmark on that day.
Sushama Karnik
the way you had picked it up from the shelf in a bookshop.
Then it was brand new, smelling of print.
Then for many days, you basked with it in the sun, sitting by the window,
leaving it only when you needed a coffee break.
Then came a time when it gathered dust in a corner of a book-case.
One day now
you pick it up again.
You hate stains on anything that is immaculate.
You are startled by the stains on a certain page,
stubborn stains
left by the strawberries you carelessly put between its pages
as a bookmark on that day.
Sushama Karnik
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- Nov 2, 2017
- Good morning
True,
Time changed many things.
Once upon a time I was able to finish reading a book of 1400 pages within two nights but now It is a wish.REPLY Nov 2, 2017 - Thanks ++Sem Xtz2017 , +Amir Asadi, +anna .a Sorry for the late reply. A breezy, weekend and the presence of one of your favorite books. And Anna, berries would be welcome too;-)
REPLY Nov 3, 2017
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