“Granny’s Chiffarobe”
Polished gleaming mahogany
Gold patina handles inviting you to open doors to the past
Lingering odor of fluffy golden buttery biscuits mingled with Rose Milk perfume and musty mothballs
Former home to faded calico cotton dresses and floral aprons
and your two weapons: a well-worn Bible and a pearl-handled pistol
Ghostly tufts of quilting cotton left as breadcrumbs leading back to a time now existing only in my memories
The secret door to Narnia I never could find.
©Buffy Hamilton, 2008
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YA author Kelly Bingham is here in our library as I write! She is doing poetry writing workshops with our English classes today….what an amazing poet!
Here is my poem from the list writing strategy she showed us today:
“Granny’s Chiffarobe”
Polished gleaming mahogany
Gold patina handles inviting you to open doors to the past
Lingering odor of fluffy golden biscuits mingled with Rose Milk perfume and musty mothballs
Former home to calico cotton dresses and floral aprons
Your worn Bible and pearl-handled pistol
Bits of quilting cotton left as breadcrumbs to a time now existing only in my memories
The secret door to Narnia I never could find.
Draft 2, posted 12:55
“Granny’s Chiffarobe”
Polished gleaming mahogany
Gold patina handles inviting you to open doors to the past
Lingering odor of fluffy golden biscuits mingled with Rose Milk perfume and musty mothballs
Former home to faded calico cotton dresses and floral aprons
Your worn Bible and pearl-handled pistol
Ghostly tufts of quilting cotton left as breadcrumbs to a time now existing only in my memories
The secret door to Narnia I never could find.
Draft 3, posted 2:10
“Granny’s Chiffarobe”
Polished gleaming mahogany
Gold patina handles inviting you to open doors to the past
Lingering odor of fluffy golden buttery biscuits mingled with Rose Milk perfume and musty mothballs
Former home to faded calico cotton dresses and floral aprons
and your two weapons: a well-worn Bible and a pearl-handled pistol
Ghostly tufts of quilting cotton left as breadcrumbs leading back to a time now existing only in my memories
The secret door to Narnia I never could find.
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The Unquiet Library celebrated National Poem In Your Pocket Day on Thursday, April 17! We created “pockets” of poems throughout our media center where our patrons can go and get a poem to read for fun! We also gave each English teacher a pocket of poems for his or her classroom to help students celebrate this event of sharing poems.
You can come by the library and get poems for your pockets for the rest of the month! Please stop by the media center and browse our pockets of poems, which are a terrific mix of classic, modern, and student written poems! Several of our pocket poems were written by Creekview’s finest! 
Happy poem reading!
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