Bookmarks

I am participating in National Poetry Writing Month 2019. 30 Poems in 30 Days is the target.

The Day 12 Prompt for #NaPoWriMo is to write a poem about a dull thing that you own, and why (and how) you love it. Alternatively, what would it mean to you to give away or destroy a significant object?

Often, what might seem dull to you may not be so in eyes of others. and vice versa. In that context, I divide the world into two - between readers and non-readers. While the readers value the bookmarks, the other group will find it boring and insignificant.

Haven't we all faced this before?

I will offer you a cake

and some cookies too really fast

but don't chew the bookmarks

if you're hungry, just ask

you care not for their existence

but they do matter to me

I might have collected a dozen

with one inside each book I read

you think they are dull

sombre pieces of cut paper

you blabber about their futility

testing patience of fellow readers

but how would you know

the magic that they possess

books were never your companion

their power you can not guess

thus, don't spoil the bookmarks

else stories might no longer flow

you would be lost tracking the pages

the reading, thus, tiresome, slow

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• NapoWriMo - Day Twelve
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