Wednesday, 26 November 2014

A Book is like a Single Star



A book is like a single star 
A many-sided diamond
A complex thing
Giver of a thousand beams
Unbending source of power

Though one amongst a crowd
Shining as a silent eye
Shivered light, brilliant cut
A single force 
In many-sided dreaming lines                         

Yet as a star without a seer is no light
A book without a reader is no star:
For of itself it has no dream to shine
Its all, in the eye of its beholder       



Poem from a Sequence:
A Rain of Booklight
Part 1  # 33
© Judith Evans Deverell, 2014


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