Book Lovers

This piece of homework was to write using personification;
Making an inanimate object take on human personality.
I chose the book and the pen...

It was a dull day in the bedsit

hard to concentrate. Her thoughts split

the Book idly turns another page

bars of rain down the window form a cage

Restless heart filled with unspoken yearning

Her petticoats rustling like pages turning

Book thrown aside, tossed on the bed

Thoughts merging with the rain in her head.

The pen, cheerful, paused from his noise

His happy humming as he sat, pen poised.

Thinking aloud while writing his diary

His mind kept busy, full of enquiry.

Words flowed from his nib like liquid gold

Snuggled in his eiderdown to keep out the cold

He was on fire, the pen and the page

Lines poured from his heart, his life the stage.

Pen glanced up, and seeing Book,

With her face deep in thought-another look

reveals an unread, unknown story

Book stands up, revealing her glory.

As her cover slips to the floor,

she makes a move to shut the door

she crosses the room and looks in his eyes

Pen looks up with great surprise

For the first time to discover

“Don’t you know?” she whispers

“Never Judge a Book by it’s Cover”