A Book is like a Starry Sky

A book is like a starry sky . . .

   a studded canvas 

   a secret blended heaven

To raise the mind 

   toward a distant treasure       

Displayed against a background 

  deep or black:

The unknown scenic content 

   of what lies beyond  

Opening to a diamond cluster 

   from its wide expanse

Pinpoint lighted vision 

   from lucid viewing points          

Light out of darkness 

   emerging in many forms

Leading the mind it challenges 

   to see beyond itself

Yet know its capacity 

   still unfathomable by these tiny fires 

Poem from a Sequence:

A Rain of Booklight
Part 1  # 20

© Judith Evans Deverell, 2014

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