An antique, unlabelled book on a wooden surface with a modern postcard that pictures a pink rose partially sticking out of it. All colour except for the pink hues have been washed out.
© Stefanie Neumann - #KBFPhotography
The close-up of an unlabelled, antique book cover lends the background to a poem written over it in white letters:
INSIDE MY BOOK
I take stock in the library of my life.
Walking by each shelf,
taking each book into my hands,
I take in the vellichor of my history
with all its great events,
and all the little notes in the margins.
Some books are more used, than others.
Some have leaves, or flowers, pressed
or postcards stuck
between the pages.
Some have been borrowed,
and never found their way back.
Others were forgotten
by somebody else
or even by me.
Some stories are told in words,
others are told in pictures.
Some books are talking about events
that came to pass
before my birth.
I take stock in the library of my life.
Feelings pass through,
add petrichor.
Breathing in the dust of the past,
right here,
right now,
I ask myself:
Is this the story I want to tell?
© Stefanie Neumann - @KokopelliBFree
© Stefanie Neumann - #KBFPhotography
#BornBattleReady - #vellichor
#BlueSkyArtShow - #inside
Inside My Book
My contribution to this week's #BornBattleReady ( #vellichor ), and #BlueSkyArtShow ( #inside ).
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