Books
A book can take you overseas
To distant lands and back
Yet one can fit inside your hands
Or several in a stack
A hundred in a dresser drawer
Or twice that on a shelf
You easily get lost in them
Or one day find yourself
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Synchronicity! The 2 consecutively-posted poems entitled "Books" by Ray & Dawson inspire me to turn off Google and open my patiently waiting books. Thanks guys for these wonderful poems!
Entirely coincidental that I posted a poem called Books just after yours. Yours has the advantage of brevity and rhyme and a memorable ending.
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Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Tue 10th Jun 2025 11:24
I'm so grateful that I was encouraged as a schoolboy to join our civic library.
I frequented a branch on my way to and from school, sometimes reading a book under the desk, whilst the teacher was trying to instill the joys of long division and fractions into me, and then having the book confiscated!
Then as an adult in retirement I was equally grateful to find books about music and walking in France which openend up a wealth of experience.
I wonder how many children today are as fortunate as I was?