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