Prose to Poetry
(Re-aranging lines of prose: already poetry)
The BookShop by H Le Roux Slabbert – Sunday 19 Oct 2008 (23:00) , Klerksdorp (bed)
Based on: Bookshop (Patience Strong 1930)
I know a little bookshop
in a quiet alleyway,
with books all scattered
-a pittyful array
in rows of shelves outside
-of volumes faded, tattered
…and they look me in the face:
“Once we were wanted, once we had a place”,
they seem to say.
Poor waifs and strays!
My heart goes out.
I’d like to give each one a home,
pressed close against my wall.
To shelter them beneath my roof
in a warm and fire lit nooks.
who would not take compassion
of these lonely orphaned books!
How can folks make them come to this?
A Book can be a friend –
and after many years a faithful service
-what a dismal end!
… All jumbled up together
like good and bad weather (*1)
no choice they had to mix –
imagine being twopence:
when you’re really three-and-six (*2)
H Le Roux Slabbert (remixer…)
Sunday 19 Oct 2008 (23:00) , Klerksdorp (bed)
South Africa
Based on: The Quiet Hour, London 1983 (11th imprint 1957, p45)
Notes:
1) Only addition to this lovely poem is the rhyme word “weather”. Patience string wrote prose- but all the sentences have rhyme words, except this line (no 25 in the poem).
2) “On sale” Alas in life the elderly gets “pushed out”, neglected…
Prose to Poetry by Author H Le Roux Slabbert 
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