Used book —
tucked between pages,
a pressed flower.
About Masago
- Masago
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- From "The Haiku Anthology" I became interested in Haiku and I have since written numerous haiku, senyru, and tanka. "Masago", my haiku pen-name, means "grain(s) of sand" in Japanese. I have recently started learning Esperanto and Japanese. A few years ago I developed a new eastern verse form which we now call 'Renhai'.
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Ice Can Look Nice4 years ago
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A Dream, A Prayer8 years ago
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9 comments:
Used book -
tucked between pages,
a pressed flower.
989: Need filled.
[I recently bought and old book that had been published in 1901. When I got it home I found that someone had used it for pressing flowers. I'm assuming they were put there not long after 1901. The flowers were now gone as I could see a faint outline on many pages. However, on one page I found a flower that was smaller and had remained "hidden" in the crease over the years. What a find.]
superb
the find and the sharing of it
thank you
One of my favourite places to be - a bookstore.
Got this gem from a photographer friend who has to travel a lot. It's a Hebrew prayer book with the list of names of who it once belonged to in the front. It's like owning a little bit of history.
lovely find
john
I like very much the used books. They have personality.
antiquarian book -
the unfinished letter
of an unknown friend
thank you, Vaughn
precious find well recorded!
Floots: Thank you.
Aurora: I love bookstores too...and that Siddur you got was a real find! Similarly I bought a Hebrew school book via eBay a few years ago and was thrilled when it arrived. It had originally been in a Jewish school in New York and several of the kids names who had used the book were written in the back of it.
I got another book on eBay called "How the Hebrew Language Grew" by Edward Horowitz. When it arrived I was pleased to find a hand-written message in English and Hebrew signed by Sylvia Horowitz. It was clear from the message that it was a gift from the Author's wife to someone named Lizzie.
John: Thanks.
Dana-Maria: Indeed, at the same time I got this book mentioned in the poem I also picked up a 1940's copy of the Canadian Criminal code. Stuffed between the pages was type-written legal notes and an envelope with an interesting newspaper clipping with some mysterious notes written on it.
Polona: Thank you!
could you identify the flower?
maybe there was a seed and you could plant it????
Pamela: That is a thought. They look something like bluebells to me but of course they are now more of a brownish/yellow in colour. As for seeds, that is nice idea but I'm afraid they look to have been picked before pollination. :-(
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