by Suzy Hazelwood

 

The cover of a book

can display more fiction

than the words on the actual page

And beginnings

and endings

can beg the reader to buy

But the books

that I never fall out of love with

their covers often bland

are to be found

or acquired

by chance of being there

just a lucky day

 

My mind quivers

with eager anticipation

at what my eyes will see

between the musty ancient pages

as my fingers stroke the aged and tatty skin

of a book from long ago

 

Authors I’ve not heard of

but were men of great fame

in their literary day

Publications

declared to be written ‘By A Lady’

a nameless novelist

a woman

quietly competing

in a man’s world of books

All their words folded into paper

a hundred years or more

the print

waiting

to be read

or spoken

just one more time

 

And now I

this woman of ebook future

and computer literate age

will absorb

the declaration

the knowledge

and the beauty

of a timeless writers heart

 

 

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