As I pass each shop I take a look, I can’t resist the lure of a book.
I scan the offering on a shelf and wish I could write as well myself.
I handle the volumes thick and thin and sample the words that lie within.
Mostly it’s just the same old poems resurrected in gaudy tomes.
But now and then I pick one out that makes me want to whoop and shout.
Verses new by poets unknown, Some make me laugh and some make me moan.
And very occasionally, every once in a while. I’ll find a book that will make me smile.
Every page better than the one before, the sort of stuff that makes me cry, more!
I picked one of those up last week full of the stuff for which I seek.
I went to the till since I had to pay. No wonder all my cash has drained away.
Author notes
I wish I could stop buying the damned things but I'm a book-a-holic!!
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It is such a dangerous occupation this book wyrming.
Where abouts are you now. I'm In Colden Common.
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Excellent Writing -- GREAT FUN Poem
My wife (retired) was a librarian.
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Thanks. My new years resolution is to adopt a 2 for 1 policy. 2 books out for every 1 book I bring home. That way I might eventually get it under control.
Jim
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Wonderful
Such a great poem about a truly marvelous addiction. You captured it so well.
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Thanks for your response. Alas I am having to fight my addiction as space is limited after the first twenty thousand volunes!
I am on a diet of thin books only!
Jim
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Book-a-holics are no different from the others in a different genus in the 'holic' family who can't walk past a wineshop without taking a dive for a couple...Myself, I am not so hopelessly gone on either habit (though I would love to) thanks to the dame who won't stand any nonsense. Everything in moderation, she says. Did you finish reading them books you bought last year, she asks... Strong checks and balances back home. You would have stopped buying the damned things long back had you been wise in your young age like me, Jim!
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Ah but perhaps I was even wiser as I do not have a SWMBO of my own.
Jim
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Oh Jim - this is so true. whilst in UK I was constantly making detours and U-turns into little alleyways and tiny book shops to see what treasure I could find and I did. Mostly 'thin' volumes to fit in my suitcase but oh what treasures I found. (now poasted on OP of course). From one book-a-holic to another - thanks for making so many of us realise we are not so weird after all.
Von :))
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Last week I bought a book for just one poem!! I should have stood and copied it out.
With over 30,000 books and mags I really must stop buying or get a bigger flat!!
Jim
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Me TOO!!
You sound like my other half.... I cannot walk past a bookshop without buying at least one book. My friends keep on teasing me that I have to open a library for the less fortunate....
Great poem though. Thanks or the read
Hugz
Himler
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Other half hmmm. Did you know that's what married couples call each other over here
Jim
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Love books,too. I enjoy poetry but usually get fiction. Right now I'm reading the first of three books the TV show Dexter is based on.
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Poetry, dialect, crime, sci-fi its all the same shelf fodder for me.
Jim
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