Sometime Around Midnight

This Weeks Word Challenge is: Reading, and here is my poem response….

Sometime Around Midnight

I was reading a book on the screen

The letters were clear, what did they mean

To be seen, without the story’s pages being turned

No leaf after leaf, of paper concerns

Then I went to bed, to read my new paperback

My mind preferred the real white and black

Eventually, tired eyes began to go down

Losing sight of the last blurry noun

I used my personal bookmark, between exact pages

That handwritten card, from my favourite sage

Then I heard a quiet clonk of my book closing

And drifting into sleep, I smell that aroma of new printing

Ivor Steven (c) September 2019

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G'day, and welcome to my blog site. My name is Ivor Steven, I live in Geelong, Australia. I'm an ex-industrial chemist, and a retired plumber, and a former Carer of my wife(Carole), for 30 years, who suffered from severe MS. I Write poetry about those personal thoughts, throughout and beyond my life as a Carer. I've been blogging for over 2 years, and writing poems for 19 years. Of course a lot of my poems are about my favourite subject Carole, but since I've been blogging my writings have become quite varied, humourous, mystical, observational, and even a few monster/horror poems.

39 thoughts on “Sometime Around Midnight”

    1. Thank you Punam, yes I was trying to express that earthy feeling of the book being your personal item , and that moment of comfort, when finding the book’s there on your chest, as you awake sometime around midnight. xxx😊😉📖

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  3. I’m glad you did this post and I enjoyed reading it, it showed perfectly your love of the real tangible thing! Thank you for joining us again. 🙂

    By the way, don’t forget if you re-post this, you’ll need to redo the pingback so that visitors to Weekly Prompts when clicking on yours don’t get the Oops Page not found.

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  12. Real books only for me please! I’m such an obsessive reader, that in the past, I’ve been compared to Henry Bemis from the Twilight Zone who was thrilled when the world ended and he was the only survivor so he could just read books endlessly, but then he goes and breaks his reading glasses 😦

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  14. Sorry to tell you that the pingback on Weekly Prompts no longer works. We get Oops Page not found.
    Whenever a repost takes place the date on your own page address changes. Anyone clicking on your pingback from Weekly Prompts cannot find the original it was linked to.
    All it needs is for you to redo the pingback below AFTER you’ve reposted.

    Word Prompt Reading

    Just out of interest, why do you repost?

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    1. I redo pingback because of time differences overhere, and I’m trying to give all my followers an opportunity to see my article. Basically I post nearly one post/poem a day. But I’ll stop doing it for your weekly prompts,

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      1. I get you and understand. That’s why I began publishing our articles at 07:00 AM UK time so it would give nearly everyone a chance to read on the same day.
        You don’t need to stop doing it for the prompts, keep a note of the prompt link and just link again after you’ve reposted. Anyway if you do it twice it will keep our numbers up! 😂

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