TRIP TO HISTORIC BATH POEM 52

There is nothing more absorbing than writing a poem. It is a free-flow of thought with rhythm and rhyme. The feeling of the nib against the page is a satisfying one, if inspiration is there.

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“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” Jane Austen

Reading

I hear your voice pleasant,

And comfortable I relax,

Most amiable is the tone,

And we escape to fiction.

As the pages turn,

The world fades away,

Into battle or consternation,

To be solved.

There is nothing so nice,

As to lie on your knee,

As you stroke my hair,

And tell me a story.

The luxury of the moment,

I cherish beyond the words,

A commitment in my heart,

Also those of the girls.

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.” Gustave Flaubert