A Book
What’s in a book
Lets open it and see
As we turnover leaf’s
Imaginations run free
Adventures and travels
That burst from each page
Things we can learn
To make us a sage
Laughter and tears
Together reside
Expressed in a way
The author decides
Painting a picture
Inside our own thoughts
Heroes and villains
Whose stories are fought
This magic of words
Encased in a sleeve
Forever a gift
We all should receive
Please buy someone a book
A 1950’S Ice Cream Man
He had no tunes that he could play
Just a bell to ring away
No fancy whips of ice cream charm
Infused with nuts and chocolate calm
He only had a little fridge
To keep the cold and lollies hid
But still we flocked to buy such fare
As with each lick we did not care
For six pence spent
We owned the world
Yes every boy and every girl
Now faded back within my youth
I can’t forget that glowing truth
My life seemed oh so simple
A Book for Winter
Slowly the night lengthens its stay
As the sweetness of summer just fades away
Gone is the chorus that helped me to wake
Now only the darkness it seems is my fate
So I’ll sit by the fire and take up a book
Which spells out an adventure from the very first look
Were the hero of course will surely be me
As my imagination does slowly but slowly break free
The light on each page will just drag me in
While a picture of pretense will quickly begin
The author of course is not on the scene
As I weave out a tapestry of what might have been
How does it end I truly can’t say
But I know on the last page I will get my own way
For all books are written with the reader in mind
Or we just would not buy them I think you might find
Now my eyes they grow heavy as I tire from my day
So I’ll close up my book and put it away
To store up its magic and savour its gift
As into a dream world my thoughts they will drift
Away from the drafts of winter.
Thought to Ponder – You cannot open a book without learning something.- Confucius
Music on You Tube – Yo Yo Ma – Meditation
Book to Read – I Am Here – Sandy Stevenson
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