Wednesday, 26 November 2014

A Book is like a Skillful Archer


A book is like a skillful archer 
Straight aiming a certain central message
As an arrow swift to seek its target
Dispatched from an inner taut stringed bow 
In hope to see its bull's-eye in a reader; but

Can an arrow find a way through a forest
Unless it first come from a pure aimed bow?
Can it strike my heart its own needed blow
Unless it first has stricken he who sent it? 
Light and life come only out of dark and death


Poem from a Sequence:
A Rain of Booklight
Part 1  # 37
© Judith Evans Deverell, 2014

The Bookmark Project



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