My Hobby

My love affair began - as I recall - when mother read to me. What golden times! Enchanting fairy tales and nursery rhymes had planted fancy’s seeds when I was small. Then through my youth, I’d almost daily spend the time, my nose inside a fiction book. To find me, someone only had to look inside my room. I’d be there with a friend.. . Yes, every book I’ve loved, a friend -the best! Yet others came along to steal my heart - Romantic “West Side Story” was the start. And after “Spartacus,” I was obsessed! Movies on TV, then videotape Then DVR - to feed my passion’s sin. I do not tire of films time and again. And now there's Netflix for each great escape! It’s in great stories that my passion lies - in novels and in movies on a screen; My hobby's getting lost inside a scene read in a book or played before my eyes! Feb. 10, 2019 for Julie Leigh Rodeheaver's Hobbies Poetry Contest