In “The Retiring Candle,” Scott Bates says it’s okay to hide your light under a bushel–as long as you have a good book, that is.
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Curl Up with a Good Book
This Scott Bates poem celebrates curling up with a good book.
Homage to My Father, a Reader
Friday Tomorrow is the fifth anniversary of my father’s death. To remember him, I share one of his poems about reading. My father read to my brothers and me virtually every night when we were growing up, passing along a passion that became our own. In “The Retiring Candle,” he imagines an introverted candle retreating […]
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Curling Up with a Good Book
This Scott Bates is a testimony to the solitary joy of reading.
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A Poem for Those Who Love to Read
My father is a master of light comic verse, a genre often not taken seriously by literature departments. The ability to lift the spirits, however, is a precious gift that should not be underestimated. The following poem, about a lover of reading, is a reference to Jesus’s instructions (in Mark 4:21-22) that we not […]
