Planchette & Page Comments

i plan to use this in my/our January 2019 Showcases. Thanks. bri (:

p.s. now i know planchette; my cousin used to use one in her teens, to entertain her cousins. i 'love' the title's alliteration. bri ;)

books are indeed fantastic creations, and like foods, books come in all flavors to satisfy different tastes. to MyPoemList. favorite lines: for you and I have whispered, chanted our tales nightly, in voices quiet like rustling pages .....and now i notice a lack of periods, but a sprinkling of commas in your poem. i approve of your punctuation usage! ! (not that you NEED my approval! ! !) bri :)

Nika, I absolutely love this poem! I have added it to my collection. You express that joy not just in reading but in book themselves that I share. And your poem dramatizes this joy with wonderful exuberance and undisguised delight. I think those of us who see that there is magic in books, even just holding one is magical, have to support each other in this joy. Because it's not universal. And it's not understood by many others. They may think we're goofy to be so dazzled by books and reading. That's what makes your poem so liberating for me. Someone else has confirmed my belief! The magic is indeed real! Robert Bly, the MN poet you read about in my poem on the reading he gave last October, has a really amazing passage in one of his poems: Everyday I get down on my knees and kiss the books I love. It's overstated but we know it's true.