This beautiful poem is by Diana at The Wandering Armadillo who kindly gave me permission to do a spoken version of ‘The Bookmark’.
CHANSON TRISTE BY CARLA BRUNI
the bookmark
i am a tattered bookmark
nestling between feathered pages,
the best time of your day you say
with coveted book, to read in stages
but alone in the light of day
to leave this worded catacomb
i’ll edge away from threaded spine
seeking freedom from paper home
so many of your transient reads
have evoked smiles…private tears
i’ve watched them come and go
i the constant,through the years
but these pages are not my friends
they constrict with musty damp
so rest me on your bed time lap
there us both, by oiled lamp
A deeply layered piece. I enjoyed Diana’s poem and your reading of it, Nige. Both very lovely.
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Thank you Colleen .
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Oh Nigel! What a thrill this was … it’s one of those “moments” in life that truly overwhelms. Having another person read out loud my words is so humbling….I had to cover my face with my hands as I blush/laughed and glowed all at once. You read it with perfect rhythm and intonation and in such a soothing way with your lovely accent.
Thanks ever so much! Raising a glass in your honour this gloomy night … I couldn’t be happier!
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It was, as it always is, a pleasure to read and present some ones art in this way Diana. I can’t adequately describe the feeling, but every so often I’m just drawn to a piece in this fashion. It is not an indication of either a particular Poet’s or poem’s merit, rather that a piece just clicks with me, much like Lynn’s, Charlies and Davy’s. I guess the closest analogy I can come up with is learning a foreign language. In the early days you ‘mentally’ translate from mother tongue to new, you’re ‘thinking’ what to say, later when you’re fluent you ‘think’ in the new language automatically. Certain pieces are like that to me, all the elements are just there in my mind and I want to give them voice.
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oh how very beautiful. it hurt even.
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Yes, our friend Diana writes some amazing verse. Thank you.
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