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To Be Bookless
“You cannot stroll through a meadow full of flowers,
breathe those smells, see those colors and remain
angry. You will just support the beauty, the poetry
of life.”--Jonas Mekas.
You, my dear, are a voracious reader. Every spare
moment I find you with nose in a book. You have
read hundreds during our three decades together.
It is more than an interest or hobby. For you it’s
like meditation. Sometimes I get a bit jealous of
those books when I crave your attention.
So, thank you for consenting to spend a day with
me, a getaway to a mountain meadow. We shall
picnic, sitting on a checkered blanket. We will
count clover leaves, enjoy the wildflowers, chase
butterflies, and dance with angel’s breath in our
hair. We might even make love.
I only ask that that on this day, you stay focused
on each precious moment, on my smile and my
touch--and bring no book, for this one day we’ll
give to idleness, and the rekindling of love.
Glenn Buttkus
Prosery
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13 comments:
Beautiful, Glenn! Very much thinking along the same lines for this prompt, although viewed from a different angle!
this is so very sweet, Glenn! just lovely.
-David [ben Alexander]
Lovely, Glenn. You channeled your inner Wordsworth. It sounded very nineteenth-century.
Such beautiful prosery. I do understand the meditative aspect of reading like that. I love his gentle pleading to have her all to himself in the meadow for a day. How could anyone resist?
This startedwith real philosophy, and brought us into deep love and sensuality - when I say philosophy I am always so very interested in the role of the reader, and particularily in poetry, for if the reader is given the liberty to interpret the poem how he/she wants, does the poem now, at the very least, in part, belong to him/her...surely........I always really like that blend between literature and nature...so enjoyed this all the more, it was succint, so words were dosed well, and it became very personal, and intimate...very good..
Yikes! 'during out three decades' - typo Glenn..
Very tender and romantic Glenn. You don’t show this side of yourself too frequently. Excellent piece my friend.
So romantic! Loved it.
A beautiful story, Glenn. Sounds like a great prescription for renewal of romance!
Absolutely beautifully done, Glenn! I can imagine the person who reads and reads....and then the shift to the serenity of just being together....and I love the last line.
So marvelous to spend time like that, but sometimes I find it real comforting sitting in nature reading together... maybe I have real difficulties with idleness...
What a shame I didn't run into you on our mass picnic outing, Glenn! A lovely write :-)
This is so beautiful and romantic Glenn.
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