I sit in a nook
With a cozy book
Enid Blyton sparks
Jane Austen left marks
"Little women" read
Sherlock Holmes ahead
"Hound of Baskervilles" -
Mystery that thrills
"Wuthering Heights" shook
"Jane Eyre" - a cool book
O. Henry delights
Tolstoy - I reach heights
Shakespeare - can't forget
None as good as yet;
Poets so many
Inspired by plenty
Imagination
Book world's creation
Happy to be there
With nary a care
Travel round the world
Into new zones hurled
Master my diction
Power of fiction
Absorbed in a story
disengaged from the world
Embryo position assumed
the wonder of birth
Characters larger than life
plot nary a stall
Mother smiles fondly
she, who’s directed it all
hold on,
don’t leave yet.
I still need to grab
the piece of
my heart
that I used as
a bookmark
Reflections of reading poetry SK
At eight years old I read the famous lines
and spellbound, read each word again,
then I was there: I stood in snowy woods,
no longer seeing school and constant rain.
I cannot remember
The first book I read.
The first time I felt
Alive.
That's what it is, always has been
To me.
A story, a narrative, a journey,
More real than the hand holding the book.
I open a book,
And feel at home.
For as long as I can remember,
Interaction, daily necessities,
Have felt
Forced.
But when the page turns,
My heart flutters.
Life is hard,
To one and all.
But books are constant,
And speak to the soul.
(Written 11th September 2026)
Gathering fantasies over here
Warm holiday books feat setting near
Stomping crimson red grapes
Imagining romantic fate
Characters dreaming of cupid's spear
I love old book stores.
The smell and look of old books,
sets my heart a pumping.
At home I have my favorite stops,
checking out each shelf carefully.
When I travel,
I look up stores before I leave home.
My list can be short or long,
with a book or two or three following me home.
This summer I found an old book,
a book jumped into my shopping cart saying,
please take me home.
I have been reading on and off for weeks,
last night I got to the end.
I could not wait to see what was going to happen,
The Last Page Was missing.
A Humorous limerick takes the stage,
reading a limerick at any age.
Your fun words made me blush,
now I have a huge crush.
Take a bow for your words and go backstage.
Library
Off to bury
Minds, spending time
Reading, soaring to imaginative levels
Harvesting curious ideas, challenging the devil
Experiencing many worlds, action always in a swirl
Around their setting, where the conflict can be upsetting
But when, the story comes to an end, happiness wins over the sin
If not in a hurry, destiny, visit the library, where the imagination will come alive, and cry
A good book is the way, to carry a day, under the sky blue, enjoying fantasies that are cool
She holds the book
like it’s a living thing~
a small, breathing lantern of thought
opening in her hands.
Letters rise from the page,
blue-bright and weightless,
as though the story has decided
it can no longer be contained.
They drift upward,
carrying pieces of her~
curiosity, memory,
the quiet ache of what she’s lived
and what she longs to understand.
In their ascent
she feels something shift:
the way destiny sometimes arrives
not as a path
but as a sentence
finally breaking free.
And for a moment
she is both reader and written,
the book and the becoming~
watching her own story
lift into the air
to show her what it means.
my heart is an open book waiting for the right person to read it
I found a little house
on the street corner today.
I opened up its tiny door
to find it full of treasure.
Inside were stacks of books,
all for the reader's pleasure.
I grabbed one book,
then ran straight home,
ready to devour
each and every page.
Flashlight in hand,
I read into the night.
Is this how it feels,
Me without you?
When you dumped me
Inside the trash can
Of heart broken
Lovers?
So, is this how it feels
The feeling of loneliness
In the trash can?
hook book
bed read
no voice
so nice
head read
bead did
"I'm the Carnival's
Cartomancer,
Zoltar the mystic,
foreseeing wise."
"Who immobile waits...
inside this
narrow case--
top four-sided glass
and bottom
Pine-crafted box.
"It's wishing coin's
'ka-ching',
that magically
revives me."
"As true believers
witness--once
my turbaned gaze
mentally reads
what's seeping out
their inquiring eyes."
"Fact is--these
animated hands,
randomly select
from the magnetic deck--
one, out of many, fortune
riddled cards--inked of
buoyant, superb vibes."
"Though blissful, playful,
mind you--all of 'em--
merciful white lies."
"Behold, each
future's scripted
and then sold;"
"To luck--searching,
wishing souls--
on fortune--tellin',
Robot--sellin' cards."
"Whose promised prizes
are a Carney vendor's
paradise."
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