Window Shopping

[Hawkman]

If only she were mine, the goddess in the bookshop.
Brilliant grey-green eyes, ringed in blue,
Gossamer-fine blond hair, carelessly coiffed,
With a voice musically contralto as she
Prattled merrily away about her life.

We discussed Anglo-Saxon poetry,
Greek and Latin verse, while like a fool,
All I could do was smile and stare
And long to kiss her smiling lips
While she looked up readers on her lists.

[Delta40]

oh how sweet and I felt she was a mythical figure on a dustcover!

[Hawkman]

Thanks, D40, but no dust jacket, she... Actually she makes them :D She's a book binder as well!

H

[Bar22do]

love for a book-binder, is this not original, you should write a whole tale "The wise hawk and a carelessly coiffed book-binder" - and this piece is blushing sweet! thanks - Bar

[angliholic]

Thanks, Hawkman, for sharing this diva with us!

Your beautiful poem makes me eager to catch a glance of this goddess!
Is there an image by any chance?

[Jerrybaldy]

Is book binder cockney rhyming slang for something? blinder maybe? probably not, but she must have played a blinder all the same. Are you sure Daffy wasnt in that same bookshop as he had a similar epiphany.

[Hawkman]

Sweet Bar,

Alas, there is no more to tell :D The title says it all...

angli,

Thank you too, glad you like it. No image, I'm afraid, save this brief impressionistic sketch. :D

Best, H

[Hawkman]

JB, Sadly my bookshop is not on the road to Damascus :D The admirable lady in my poem certainly made an impression, but I'm less vulnerable to lightning than a damp duck :D !

[Delta40]

Thanks, D40, but no dust jacket, she... Actually she makes them :D She's a book binder as well!

H

I am sure she would appreciate it if you gave her the link to Lit-Net....:crazy:

[Hawkman]

I guess she could make an embossed leather binding for her computer :D

[PrinceMyshkin]

Ah, that good old Anglo-Saxon poetry, Greek and Latin verse approach! Many's the time I've tried it myself, but it never worked for me, either.

Marvellous vignette.

[Hawkman]

At least she could discuss it, which made the effort worthwile :D

[Delta40]

you would be in receipt of more of her smiles...

[hillwalker]

A touching vignette, Hawk..... a meeting of minds, sadly, rather than bodies.

[dafydd manton]

Damp Duck? I resemble that remark! Anyway, I'm older than you, and more impressionable. Anyway, I bet the face I saw was beautifuller than the face you saw - so there!

[Hawkman]

you would be in receipt of more of her smiles...

Only on Fridays though :D


A touching vignette, Hawk..... a meeting of minds, sadly, rather than bodies.

She is very easy on the eye though, and these days, all I do is look anyway...


Damp Duck? I resemble that remark! Anyway, I'm older than you, and more impressionable. Anyway, I bet the face I saw was beautifuller than the face you saw - so there!

In view of your advanced age and soggy condition I will allow you to think that :D You never know, it might even be true...

Live long and Prosper

H

[dafydd manton]

Beauty is in the eye of the wotsit, me old china!

[Delta40]

in Australia they say beauty is in the eye of the beerholder...

[Hawkman]

I beleive you're both right :D