The Notebook
Shrewsbury Spark Young Writers Teen Group
(after Edip Cansever’s ‘The Table’)
A group of writers, filled with imagination,
wrote their names in their notebooks,
drew words and letters there.
They sacrificed love and time in their notebooks
they locked secrets and something else there.
The writers etched ideas there in purple ink,
the date, dark and light, doodles and little drawings.
They wafted the smell of the library,
onto the pages of old and new books,
dropped in orange juice and cookie crumbs,
sounds of a pen scratching the paper,
and the feel of a hard car seat.
The poured betrayal and dripped death in there,
along with magic Goth music, shopping lists.
They put day and night in their notebooks,
whispered worlds in there, life,
beginnings and endings.
Lastly, into their notebooks,
they added inspiration for the writers to come.