A Reader Asks
A Reader Asks
Of the books that you’ve read
Which ones were the best?
Which ones caught your fancy?
Which ones passed your test?
Which ones made you laugh?
Which ones made you cry?
Which ones would you toss?
Which ones would you buy?
How about Little Women
With Joe, Meg and the others,
Or Lord of the Flies
With the twins and the brothers.
How was Gone with the Wind
And Scarlet O’Hara,
Or the Life and the Times
Of the great Yogi Berra.
Remember the girls
In Fried Green Tomatoes,
Or the wizard and Dorothy
And the violent tornadoes.
Great Expectations;
Great Gatsby, Tom Sawyer;
To Kill a Mockingbird;
There’s a great lawyer
Twenty Thousand Leagues
Under the Sea;
The Call of the Wild;
Those were something to me.
The Three Musketeers,
The Count Monte Cristo,
The cold Heart of Darkness,
How long does your list go?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin,
How about Sherlock Holmes,
Oliver Twist,
Or Edgar Allan Poe’s poems.
A Tale of Two Cities;
The great Jungle Book;
The Call of the Wild;
Deserve more than a look.
Last of the Mohicans,
Perhaps Moby Dick,
Then there’s Treasure Island,
Go on, take your pick.
Gulliver’s Travels,
The quaint Scarlet Letter,
A Christmas Carol,
Could you find many better?
The Red Badge of Courage,
Now that was a downer.
Have you read The Prince
Or about the dog “Sounder”?
Those some call classics
But there are so many more;
I love science fiction
Though to some they’re a bore.
CIA thrillers,
A mystery or two;
And sometimes in a pinch
Any old book will do.
I could go on
On the books that I’ve read,
But I’d like to stop here
And hear your list instead.
Copyright © Mike Dailey | Year Posted 2014
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