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Totally Optional Places
Well, not really, libraries are still one of the most awesome of places. In my poems I tend to focus more on people than places, after all, I don’t relate to concrete or leaves, but to people. Personal preference and all that. So, something of a moment that could only have happened in a definite type of place, the previously mentioned library, was the basis for the poem today. It’s about the closest I’d get to a “place” poem.
To the Angel Using Windows XP
Believe me, that startup sound is
unmistakable,
But don’t worry about it.
Don’t worry about the way it echoes
Off these cabinets of books
Or bounces around the clerestory.
Don’t worry about how it was
Loud as a jet engine
Compared to a page flip.
Don’t worry about attracting the attention
Of everyone in the library-
it’s only me
And I gladly trade
The poor sonnet in front of me
To see you glowing and on silver clouds….
It may only be a trick of the light,
the glowing,
but it suits you.
So, if you want more placeiness in poems to read, go check out the Totally Optional Prompts “Place” Poem Page (alliteration, teehee) and read the thirty-some poems linked there.
A very nice ‘place’ post, probably perfect (alliteration, ;)). Like it!
I had wanted to be clever in responding here, but my alliterative capacity is all used up :). Thanks! -tom
“I don’t relate to concrete or leaves, but to people” - I feel exactly the same.
I liked the poem very much - made me smile.
Thanks, Lisa! Not that anyone has anything against nature poetry, of course. -tom
The ending is excellent!
Thanks, Juliet! -tom
Love in the library, what better place? I like it!
To further support the greatness of the place, it was the reading room at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, so most of the books were tomes of poetry! Thanks, SWT. -tom
I love this poem! Libraries have been my home quite often and I could only dream to have made such an impact on someone! ~Linda
Thanks, Linda! It really was a serendipitous kind of moment where all these elements coincided and me there to notice. I guess the woman could view it as serendipitous if she had known… -tom
I really like the imagery in this poem and the hidden question! 3tu
Windows XP & true romance - a neat & witty association.