Wednesday, August 27, 2014

1491



brown-paper covered
smell of new copy books -
chalk scrawls the blackboard

--gillena cox


Revisit
cutting lent
retracing
giggle


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i am blog hopping today
at Poetry Jam the prompt is "Back to school"

26 comments:

Gabriella said...

A colleague of mine gave me some old textbooks she had, they were covered in blue paper. My own were covered in some kind of plastic material. I love the smell of new supplies.

Mary said...

There really is something special about a new copy book, isn't there? Always nice to have a fresh beginning.

Sumana Roy said...

still love that smell..mine were brown too..so were my daughter's..ha..why did I have to stick to one particular colors I don't know...

Gillena Cox said...

Thanks for dropping in Gabriella

much love...

Gillena Cox said...

Happy you dropped in Mary

much love...

Gillena Cox said...

happy you dropped in Sumana

much love...

Laurie Kolp said...

I used to love covering books. They just don't do that anymore.

Brian Miller said...

I love the smell of books...and we used to cover them in paper too..that way you could draw on them...ha....yeah I get it...smiles.

Gillena Cox said...

thanks for dropping in Laurie

much love...

Gillena Cox said...

Happy you dropped in Brian

much love...

Magyar said...

__I remember wrapping my 'new' study books in the remains of old paper bags! The smell of chalk,

2X + 16 = 22 ?

2 + X + 16 = 22 ?

X = 6 ?

2X3 = 6 ?

Smiles, Gillena! _m

Peggy said...

Wonderful little capture of part of the opening of school. I had nearly forgotten about always spending the first day of school covering our books.

Intelliblog said...

Our copy books were covered in navy blue paper that smelt just like brown paper. Beautifully simple and evocative, Gillena!

Gillena Cox said...

Not bad at all Magyar , happy you dropped in

Much love...

Gillena Cox said...

Thank you for your appreciation, Nicholas

Much love...

Gillena Cox said...

Thanks for your appreciation Peggy

Much love...

rallentanda said...

Scraping chalk on a blackboard..Ha!

Gillena Cox said...


◕‿◕。) Happy you dropped in Rallentanda


Much Love…

Donna Smith said...

Digital books are definitely missing the good smell of a new paper book! Short and sweet! Thanks for sharing the few words that say much.

Gillena Cox said...

Thank you for your appreciation Donna

much love...

Bill said...

Takes me back.

Gillena Cox said...

Thanks for your appreciation Bill

much love...

Helen said...

This is neat!!!

Gillena Cox said...

Happy you dropped in Helen

Much love...

Fascinating Quest said...

Brown paper covered books... brought back so many memories :)

Gillena Cox said...

happy you dropped in Nimi

much love...