OT: For book lovers

Thanks for this Joan!! I have passed it to all my library friends and readers.

mag

grest poems ---will look up the book next! thanks for the sharing

That was cute. Here is a poem I saw on the jcls.org website - under the "more information" link. All items are due on our last open day, April 6.

The Closing of the LIbrary (poem)

One by one they fall silent Hamlet in mid-question: To be, or Molly Bloom before she says Yes And the author, met by chance, who would have Spoken the missing words, and changed a child's life

One by one they drop into the dark The drawings of Michelangelo Ansel Adams' pages of captured light Albums of the most antique rockets And the most modern dinosaurs, gone

This is a choice we make today, uncompelled To spend our money on something else Instead of books, or the public good We choose the private thing The silent, and the dark

Then words return, and I remember: "Do not go gentle into that good night Rage, rage against the dying of the light" Books have a loud and soundless speech And light that comes from their light alone

So as each book is a written-out hope For remembrance and mercy and understanding And each library is a promise to the child and to the town So I must believe that no book is forever closed And that every library will, tomorrow, open

Pepper Trail written in the Ashland Public Library March 23, 2007

It is actually the Ashland branch of the Jackson County Library Services, but people tend to forget that "their" library is a branch of a larger system. Hopefully, our levy will pass in May and we'll re-open soon. If not ? ? ? ? ? Liz from Humbug

That's a *beautiful* poem, Liz! Please pass my thanks to Pepper for writing this.

Joan, keeping my fingers crossed that you'll be open again soon!