Short Libraries Poems

Got books 
checked out
from three 
libraries
now...

that's kind of
a lot---
holy cow!...

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Today I’m thankful for love, and gardens and libraries
for many philosophers and experts have agreed…
If you have 
love, 
a garden 
and a library…
you have everything you need....

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A constant murmur,
with bickering voices
and occasional shriek of glee.
All when I'm trying to revise,
down in the library.



[written in 1988 - do they still have libraries in universities?]...

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My darling son's gonna be a drag queen
   It's the easiest job he's ever seen
     He'll work local libraries
     Just like older blue faeries
   And study for law boards in between scenes...

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Cosmos can not hold                                                                                                    
The measure of our God's love                                                                                          
A book upon books...

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It is all here
the quietude I needed
the silence I require
The solitude I covet

So I can delve into a book
Becoming the heroine, or the hero,
living the life we all want to lead

I sit for hours, soaking up new personas
Loving myself more every minute...

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ghost busters
driving into libraries
funny guys

ghost blasters
called upon by the mayor
great friends

ghost seekers
scared by green blobby things
screamers

ghost detectives
contacted by the fearful
brave but silly

ghost hunters
living Halloween daily
lucky guys...

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I felt good joining my fellow arts-mates
The strangers that i will always bond with
The neighbors in the other page
The so similar verses we shared
Writing from our basements
From the comfort of our beds and couches
From our libraries
From our sleep....

We meet in a world that others will never reach...

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We bought books.so many
We read pages by the thousand
We asked friends, help groups
We camped in libraries
We panicked, we worried
We were overwhelmed
No understanding, no experience
We were so lost in this new world
Then it happened, and later came
We discovered to be parents
You write your own learning

1990...

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Classics, mysteries, autobiographies, adventure stories and everything else
Filling this terrific library from side to side, floor to window, ceiling to top shelf.
It is a book reader’s dream, until the entire concept gets bumped out by technology.
Now all of our favorite books can be uploaded on our tablets, a fine use of lexicology....

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Glorified and sanctified 
by all these tomes, 
blessed and praised, exalted, 
extolled and honored, 
adored and lauded 
in the name of these wondrous vintage books,
acclaimed 
in the name of poetry and science fiction 
and lost race adventures, 
sorrows and consolations, 
abundance and peace, 
dreams and losses 
and dreaming still in celestial libraries, 
Amen....

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now I go
I've bought my land
I have my dogs
a house surrounded by acres of woods and fields
stream water  private places
about to fill
huge libraries with my books
housekeeper, cook
Italian lovers
expert at their art
slow careful smooth touching
 entertain me keep me
satisfied
and then out again into the wild fields and woods with the dogs
best companions of all...

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I
We forget, days go by
We forget to gaze at sky

II
We are so earth-bound, non-birds
We see level, ground level, as words
Made for learning, learning theory, that is
Bound in text, texting, books, libraries

III
I learn to remind myself to look at sky
If u can't see skies easily, look high!
Trees will do, even thorns. If there are hills
Do gaze. Amaze you: mood lifts, soul trills...

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Memories:

Unique libraries of unsurpassed grandeur

Safeguarding

The precious volumes of our life's history

That

Have, painstakingly, been written down with the use

Of

The ink of our tears, and the pen of our laughter

For

Later to read, at our leisure, with great delight

Before 

The sun...goes down!










© Demetrios Trifiatis
     03 September 2021...

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If my writing ever takes me
Even close to notoriety,
(Or infamy; more likely)
And my poems marry paper,
Become books lost in libraries,
They will house a small biography,
Black and write and written for me,
(With a greyscale portrait, maybe)
And my life will be condensed.

'She lives, and she lives happily,
With the one she loves unfailingly.'
And that will tell sufficiently
Of the muse behind my words....

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Memories: 

Unique libraries of unsurpassed grandeur 

Safeguarding the precious volumes of the history

Of our life

That

Have, painstakingly, been written down with the use 

Of 

The ink of our tears and of our laughter

For

Later to read at our leisure!





© Demetrios Trifiatis
      05 August 2015 


* Inspired by the comment I made to Jan's poem "GRAND PAPA'S LIBRARY"...

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Libraries are said to be 
Treasure house of books,
Books here, books there
On racks high and low.

Culture and heritage
Thoughts of writers and poets,
All in a room for those
In thirst of knowledge.

Newspapers and magazines
For the current news,
Books on history and
Present affairs.

No noise or overcrowding
Just the noise of flipping pages,
A peaceful work in libraries,
Result in increasing knowledge....

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Thoughts carried to term,
  new words to instill

A message is born,
  an infant of will

Its father coarse logic,
  its mother the wind

Together they coupled,
  a marriage within

Their family heraldic,
  with pedigree firm

As libraries tremble,
  and sages relearn

All time on the table,
  last lie from the beast

This moment a knife
  past—future the feast

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2017)...

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Beware serious, uptight, overly stressed people.

I lurk in the classrooms, school hall, libraries, Wall Street, 

business offices.

Yes even in the churches.  My influence will spread.

There will not be a single person who can escape my presence.

I have existed before the dawn of time and will remain when 

you are just dust here on Earth.

But, when you arrive in the afterlife I will still find you.

Who am I?  I am Laughter....

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The night was listening
To the silent drums of chilling
Mightyness draging so slow by 
decades, cumbersome so lowly
Once in heavy daylight! Musty
thought brain thou hold! fusty
look now flesh prefer..........
We wail at poor last close
of the no more opening eye
we wail and wail to the distance
so that is all about life? -
I pose an erotema!
For now the bloom has withered
The libraries are raised down
Alas! The knight had gone...

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Spelling a thing of the past,
Thank-you cards will disappear,
Cursive writing will be lost, 
No more postal mail.

Phone conversations are gone,
All temples of worship close,
Libraries lock their front doors,
No more paper books. 

Good news for Craig Ferguson, 
Entertainer - Late, Late show,
The all new Johnny Carson,
No more Jay Leno. 



Written by Lee Ramage
September 7, 2011
For Linda-Marie’s Contest
“Crystal Ball”
Placed 7th ...

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They crawl into your shadows
Simmering in the quiet
Lanced in the heart by the world
Swirling in automatic-stop emotions

There in a cab somewhere in Detroit
Out of money and full of mind
A thousand thriving theologies
Dancing in their brain
Unable to open the door
Unable to pay the man

They are kicking invisible cans
Down the aisles of libraries
Burrowing like Kafka into
Any and every trail that
Holds the false promise of salvation...

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They are high state of art,
 renovated or brand new.
 In the hallway greets you fountain,
 sculpture, statue or the painting.
 
Escalators, elevators
 or the stairs will lead you up.
 Decorated walls in wood
 and uncounted standing books.
 
They will quench your every anguish.
 They have books in every language –
 second or the one for you.
 
From books learn, grow, improve,
 you will also know the truth –
 what you can and cannot do....

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Come sit down beside, and do tell,
Is a book on Agnosticism non-fiction as well?
Let's choose a book of literary spells,
Let's take ourselves to libraries to dwell,
Let's spread the word of literacy,
Billions of people need to read,
Thoughts, opinions and ideas for free,
Would you classify --isms as fiction?
Is a book on Agnosticism non-fiction?
Is Atheism a true creed?
Fabulous negativity, Kafkas, prithee,
Come sit down beside me, let's read....

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First cause
before you none
Force majeur
unbegun
Spark to blaze
and waves cascade
torrents roar
the atoms form
all life is born
from you
We rearrange the lines you draw
expend the flame
distort the thought
our chief endeavours come to nought
until perhaps, because you brought us here
we pause
listen, look to our source

Spark to light
of pure insight
One word put to flight
our libraries of blindness
One impulse
moves the door
One Lord...

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