Pages Turn
Turn the pages of a book
begin to read not just look
words speak to your mind
pictures and thoughts combine
Like a movie your eyes read
the story captures tantalizingly feeds
turn those pages absorbing more
being provoked, reading to explore
Wonders and myths, fables and rhymes
mysteries histories knowledge divine
Adventures, thrillers, humor and romance
suspense drama horror for you to enhance
Fairytales, detective, westerns to boot
adult to children with pirates of loot
Pages informing who, what, why, when and how
Pages showing back then to right now
Pages marveling of a future new
Pages of words felt written just for you
Pages of faith, of hope of love true
Pages of fear, sorrow of all evil do
From fiction to fact, black letters on white
woven into words reading pages that delight
Simple words expressed, excite and expose
Words that ignite liberty leading tyrants disposed
Some books are banished some are burn
for fear of the words they teach and learn
But the pages that touch our souls
these books with ideas that can never be stoled
Copyright © Fritz Purdum | Year Posted 2022
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