The Ruby Bookshelf

Worlds of black-white and love-hate 

Are encased, in 

Keats' Nightingale,

Thornfield's ghost,

Alice's rabbit 

And the big wide hole.

In languages 

From Korea, Japan and Spain,

Russia, France, and Germany...

All that you can obtain!

Arthur with Excalibur

Ascends his throne,

Our monk banishes the monkey

For the Lady of Bones.

I have bibles, legends, and fairy-tales,

Words from sages throughout ages,

And the truths 

That a handful 

Lived to tell!

O my vast, ruby bookshelf.