Left unfinished
Chapters unread
When drowsiness beckoned
And you went off to bed
It is why books are so great
Unlike TV you can take a break
Padre
Unfinished
books
Vellichor
One employee garbed in Jane Austin’s best
Another in a vintage 1880’s cowboy vest
All titles arranged by the decade of first print
Some quite worn, while others are mint
What is it about this bookstore that defies time?
Is that why it’s named Vellichor on the sign?
Padre
Words At Play
I chanced upon a library at night
Where the words come out to play
Stifled by the silence of the place
Bound to their pages in the day
But when the doors are locked
And the readers have all gone home
They let loose in eloquence
Usually started by a poem
Oh what tales are related then
Adventures great and small
Puns and wordplay do abound
As the newspapers listen – remembering all
But dawn shall soon return
And the words then will silent fall
As soon as they hear the key in the door
And the footsteps in the hall
Padre
Bookworm
Pixabay
Little bookworm cocooned away
With just the written page
But it is there – like a butterfly
That imagination can happily play
Sweet bookworms everywhere
When you emerge from your world of ink
Please share with us your insights deep
Tell us what you thing
Padre
Immersion
Image by Mystic Art Design from Pixabay
Suzie excused herself from the dinner table and quietly made her way to the loo. As soon as she closed the bathroom door a strange sensation came over her. She suddenly found herself in an unfamiliar landscape sitting on a boulder overlooking a broad valley, with a sparkling ribbon of a river meandering through it.
Large eagles soared above her and the towers of a cold grey castle could just be made out in the distance.
Suddenly the eagles made deliberate flight to the eastwards, and a huge shadow passed over her from the west. She looked up to see the form of a sapphire hued dragon descending into a meadow to her left.
Though she hadn’t noticed the meadow at first, her attention being drawn to the valley, it now was clearly the point of her focus, along with the beautiful blue beast which now was settling next to a clear pond for a drink. Shimmering dragonflies darted around the noble creatures brow as it drank, and . . .
There was suddenly a startling rap upon the door.
“Did you fall in?” Gary asked through the woodwork.
“No, I’m okay,” she replied, closing her book and hiding it back under the stacked towels again.
Padre
Prompt A (setting challenge): bathroom/washroom
Prompt B (sentence starter): “Did you fall in?”
Prompt C (photo): Above
Padre's Ramblings 