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blacknova
blacknova

Library

My fingers lightly trailing the spines of hundreds of books. Waiting and watching for one to speak to me. The fire spits and lashes in the delicately carved fireplace.

46 0 115 words
Platypus
Platypus

A Sea Of Words

#household @timmsyy A race of literature, And I'm winning, A sea of words, And I'm swimming. A house of paper, Fragile and thin, Don't open the door, The wind will blow in.

26 3 74 words
AWriterGirl
AWriterGirl

The Old Library

#household @Timmsyy Upon broken old shelves The books lay lifeless No ones read them in years These books crusted with age here And it seems no one would even look Upon the old tales and stories...

16 4 141 words
gazplend
gazplend

Opuss Life

So many poems,so little time. Wonderfull words,lovely rhyme. Read just one piece that can change your mood. I am starving, and these lines are my food. So hard to keep track of everybody's stuff.

54 8 75 words
Odd
Odd

Books

I crave for those unknown pages. Those new, beige like sheets. The spine that isn't yet broken, And a story whose heart still beats. I'll clutch you to my chest, And hold you delicately too.

42 16 108 words
Odd
Odd

Library

Stale yellow pages adorned with black ink. Smelling like thick choking dust, With a fiction in which can sink. Completely silent in this room.

14 2 91 words
Clairabethy
Clairabethy

In Words

Why would you want reality, when the written word makes you so much more free. When adventures and treasures you could never own, are open and offered and planted and grown.

30 2 106 words
iPuss
iPuss

Sea Monster

Deep in the waters of our oceans blue. Has a something special and out of view. A mosnter who has a thing for cats. No cute puppy dogs or smelly rats. The poor monster was bored with nothing to read.

80 16 227 words
Odd
Odd

Paper

Paper like wings beat the air, No sense or sorrow, no sense of care. Littering the path, wherevers in its wake. Telling each step a story, or some advice to take.

20 0 98 words
bryanrobertheap
bryanrobertheap

The Bookworm

"You just can't beat that new book smell." "It entices you in before the story begins." She cannot resist the calling from her latest paperback. She misses the characters when she is not with them.

18 2 115 words
HeatherAnne
HeatherAnne

Books.

There are books that make you laugh, And books that make you cry, Books in which to the characters, You're loathe to say goodbye.

28 8 67 words
lwelfare
lwelfare

Untitled

Dear whoever is listening, Tonight has been very lazy. I was going to make a curry for me and Bry but decided he probably won't want to eat that at 11pm when he gets home.

4 0 150 words
RDE
RDE

Silly Me. An Anecdote About My Life

So the other day I decided to take a break from iBooks and was reading "The story of beautiful girl" (Loved it) while on the train, I wasn't sure what a word meant so I pressed my finger to it to...

4 0 102 words
hirsty72
hirsty72

In The Darkness..pt3

The afternoon went in the blink if an eye, her friends at work asked her if she'd like to come for drinks, but she had to visit her mother,she told Them, she's not been well, this was a lie, she was...

10 3 153 words
waynedoz
waynedoz

For Opuss

There is a cat, That likes to read: A curious statement I concede; But sure enough, Each day and night, It reads and reads To our delight.

128 13 52 words
taffy01
taffy01

A First

That time when your reading a book and you relize 3 hours have past.

44 8 56 words
thatenglishgirl
thatenglishgirl

eReaders

This seems to be an opinion of mine that nobody else agrees with, and it's annoying because it's something I feel quite strongly about.

0 2 265 words
username1
username1

Why Do We Read?

Why do we read. It is impossible to coin one simple answer for this, as reading means so much to so many different people.

4 1 184 words
soulofaman
soulofaman

Stories

Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called.

14 0 54 words