Somewhere
Every time I pick up a book
somewhere becomes real.
Each page is a wing;
each word a footstep.
Somewheres sit on my bookshelves,
a line of geographies.
Today I’m going to visit
the Boston area in two eras
as I finish The Bone Garden
by Tess Gerritsen, who is from Maine.
Tomorrow, another somewhere
will whisk me away.
where somewhere is everywhere, then it is anywhere...
ReplyDeletewhat a way to travel... i share your love...
ReplyDeleteOften the best form of travelling you can do.
ReplyDeleteOh, Linda, I love this! I wish we could run off copies and send them to libraries across the world.
ReplyDeleteYou've read my mind about books with their multiple somewheres. I purposely didn't read any other posts before writing my own, or I might have written something suggested by this lovely post.
ReplyDeleteI hope you have enjoyed The Bone Garden as much as I did.
I so understand what you mean. It's a great way to travel.
ReplyDeleteI love this Linda-the perfect way to travel...
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean! It is the quickest, safest, most independent way to travel. And I love it :)
ReplyDelete>Somewheres sit on my bookshelves,
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Perfect couplet which says a lot in a few words!
so true! Great response to somewhere!
ReplyDeleteRight now I am in Tahiti! I dON'T want the story to end, i really like it here!
Calgon take me away in this perfect way. A book in the bath...is absolute perfection to me!! You nailed it!!
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Ain't it the truth: how quickly we travel. Me gusta "a line of geographies."
ReplyDeleteOh Yes! I love being swept away to somewhere else by someone's words.
ReplyDeleteVery composed descriptions comparing with geography and travel I think your inspiration from that book is amazing. Like photos inspire artists to paint.
ReplyDeleteLove the concept here. And the sound of 'somewhere.' Thanks for stopping by BES, too.
ReplyDeleteShould also mention, I'm always reading. We love to talk books with you.
ReplyDeleteoh definitely, books can bring you somewhere. loved the couplet-form like poem
ReplyDeleteoh yes you've got it. living in books. somewhere. excellent place to be!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed this. I agree with the other responses that this is the best form of travel!
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean! Only too well...
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Loved your piece. You must have read my mind. I always think opening a book to be likened to starting a great adventure. The author leads you
ReplyDeleteon a journey were only he or she knows the final destination.
What a great reaction to the prompt. I really like the "somewheres" of which you speak.
ReplyDeleteI am also someone who often makes journeys through the words and pages of a book. Wonderful take on the prompt!
ReplyDeletethe somewhere of a story. i didn't think of how books take us places. thanks.
ReplyDeleteWell said. Book somewheres are truly great places to visit.
ReplyDeleteSo many people have posted, Linda, responses to your lovely poem, but one line leaps off the page for me: "Somewheres sit on my bookshelves, a line of geographies". I really liked the way your poem moves from abstract to concrete (Tess Gerritsen's Bone Garden is on my list). And the poem says a lot about "here" as well. Lovely.
ReplyDeleteI can appreciate this as I love to read and be taken to far-off places or get scared out of my wits! LOL
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