Over the next few weeks, we’ll be sharing pieces from Crossroads III as we gear up for The 2016 Festival of the Book! Here is “Blissful Ignorance” by Katie Goldstein, a beautiful piece of poetry to get your pens writing and imaginations flowing. Thanks Katie!
Blissful Ignorance
By: Katie Goldstein
Confined to the college ruled lines
Of a tiffany blue notebook,
A pen glides
And leaves its gradient mark upon
The once pristine perfect
Perforated paper.
Though there are words here,
They hold no secret meaning,
No tender tale
To be preserved indefinitely.
The pen seems not to mind
It’s not even slightly inclined
To stop.
Though with every stroke
It inches closer to
The grey rejection bin
Sitting neglected in the corner.
If it knows this it does not show, but
Rather, appears content
With the small fluent strokes it makes.
It knows not
What it writes,
But fills every day
With daydreams of the
Minds it has swayed.