Librarians Are Those We Trust with Treasures

September 10, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is professions in honor of Labor Day, which was celebrated on September 4.

Today’s poem is about the profession of librarian.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Librarians are those we trust with treasures

Incalculable, for they are of the mind,

Bringing to our leisure greater pleasures,

Read for read, than any other kind.

All our legacy is in their keeping,

Ready to enrich each avid self,

In which one finds some past soul’s subtle meaning

Alive as well-wrought words upon a shelf.

No wealth survives without its guardians.

So must we be thankful for librarians.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/librar.html. For more poems about professions, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/professionspoems.html .

This week’s theme: Professions

September 4: Facts Are Never Simply What Is True

September 5: Therapists Find Fortune in Misfortune

September 6: Nurses Must Be Angels by Profession

September 7: Pastors Are Supposed to Be the Shepherds

September 8: You Put Yourself in Harm’s Way

September 9: There Is No Greater Passion than for Beauty

September 10: Librarians Are Those We Trust with Treasures