A shadorma is composed of six non-rhyming lines (sestina or sextet) and the syllable pattern is 3-5-3-3-7-5.
The bookstore
Quaint and exclusive
Languages
Learning
I wonder if it’s open yet?
A magic place to be.
Puzzling
Journeys into time
Glass doors
Welcoming
Will it have the text I want?
Browse is what I’ll do.
So many
Volumes I so love
Classics
New authors
New writings new challenges
Do you have Jane Eyre?
I search
Curiosity
Non-fiction
Shiny new
Purchases in paper bag
Tucked under my arm.
Written for: http://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/shadorma-photo-prompt-7-shopping/
Morpethroad 
Taking us back to paper bag purchases. I entered the door on your first line, smiled and quietly closed it on my way out, paper bag and book in hand. 🙂
Tucked under your arm I would hope. Thanks Jenny lovely comment.
I knew you would be picky lol – yes tucked under my arm 🙂
Now this is my idea of a shopping spree…and you put your packages under your arm…like a Frenchman does with bread…cool, quite a hidden metaphor actually, books being the bread of life…thanks for linking up with this great poem! 🙂
Thank you Georgia always a pleasure.
🙂
So clever c
Thank you Justine.
Ahhh… Another one that makes me want to go just smell the dusty air in a proper old bookstore. Really wish I’d focused on the photo rather than the consumerist side of shopping now. This has such nostalgia and… Just beautiful!
Thanks CC, lovely comment.
Lovely piece! *smile*
How’d you know? LOL! I stopped at a Gazillion Books (not my favorite) last weekend and grabbed the door handle but it was locked tight for the night. So I pressed my greasy nose to the glass and low-and-behold there, in the front-most bookcase, was MY author! It wasn’t the personalized (signed and sealed with a kiss) book I am hoping for, but there she was! Beautiful HER! I would have dropped some change that day had Gazillion’s been open, but unfortunately I had to walk away with nothing in my armpit. Perhaps I’ll try again today, this time at The Barne.
Wonderful piece Michael. Ah, I do adore bookstores and it has been much, much too long since I have been in one. Brings back a lot of great memories. And Jane Eyre! My favorite, so nice to see it there. Thank you for a walk down a good memory.
Thank you Jackie and what a coincidence about Jane Eyre. Great minds eh?
Great minds indeed.
What a lovely shadorma!! I felt I was there too, just wish I knew what other book you bought in that paper bag….
Ah well now dear Oliana that is a good question. It may have been a John Connolly novel or even A History of the Wee Small People by Seamus O’Bennidict. But then again I could be stretching the truth.
I do enjoy John Connolly…enough said:)
A store one could easily get lost in.
You could RoSy good comment.
I shopped with you, you know 🙂
I had a sense of someone with me, so it was you Celestine, I hope you approved of my purchases.
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