I’ve travelled roads I’ve never walked
Leapt chasms I’ve not seen
Met madmen, trolls, and dreamers, and
watched lovers, lairds and queens.
I’ve journeyed to the future, friend
and I’ve explored the past
I’ve heard the thoughts of robots, dogs,
slaves, aliens and rats.
I’ve been around this great wide earth
and fantastic worlds, too
I’ve lived a thousand lifetimes, and
I’ve swum in oceans blue
A magic travel agency’s
in pages if you look.
Explore lives you’ve not imagined,
Come sit and read a book.
That was very nice.
glad you like it.
Love this Shawn! Books are what have kept me sane 🙂 In fact I do not know how I would have survived my childhood without meeting those characters and going on adventures with them 🙂
As an only child, they were some of my best friends, when Cathy wasn’t around! 😉
That’s reading in a nutshell. Nicely put Shawn. xxx Hugs xxx
Thanks, David!
I like it . Your words have a lot of meaning
book worms already know, of course! 😉
Absolutely wonderful. You win the best reader’s poem I have ever read award :>)
You’ve got to publish it, sell it, plaster it across the land, sea and sky.
Thank you,
Patti
It is published. You just read it, didn’t you? lol Feel free to reblog and help plaster it far and wide! 😉
I love your word choice that rose from your poem’s beginning. I love your theme. I have a couple of suggestions to make this flow a little better. Take the first “and” out of your 8th line. At the very last line, leave a punch in your same meter. Like “Come with me, read a book!” Or something along those lines. You have a wonderful style. Love to follow your writing, dear.
If you read carefully, you’ll see that the poem is in iambic meter throughout, so it needs that ‘and’ in the 8th line in order not to switch into trochaic.
In the last line, to follow your suggestion it’d make the first and third foot trochaic, and the middle one spondee, so it definitely wouldn’t scan properly!
The problem you’re feeling may be more to do with the fact that there are different numbers of feet on each line…?
Colleges bring ruin to the best of artists. 😉
lol Most of my poetry knowledge came from high school! 😉
I knew I should have said high school! You are a brilliant poet. Let the professors in 50 years be able to teach a class that highlights the Shawn L. Bird style of poetry! 😀
lol It’s just that in university they didn’t do anything about meter, it was all about meaning. I’m pretty sure Mr. Collier and wikipedia taught me everything I know about meter! 😉
Shawn — I am so addicted to books and reading. This poem is my life as though you were dancing in my brain, crawling from behind my eyes and putting my thoughts on the page. This speaks volumes:
The words create a magic travel agency
in pages if you look.
Explore some lives you’ve not imagined friend,
Come sit with me and read a book.
I like this piece so much because it promotes reading. Great image!
Thanks!
You hit the nail in the head!!
Thanks!
Worlds missed, and traveled…
I miss reading books.
What’s keeping you?
Learning stuff. Have to learn the everythings. I used to just read books. Now I’m trying to fill in the “what I know I don’t know.”
A big project!
The ending is perfect…I had no idea this was about reading, but I was hooked from the beginning and then bam! Absolutely accurate, I love this!
Thank you.
Thanks for the follow. And lovely blog. A bit of a starting problem as to what to read first, but then somehow, I landed on this beautiful poem. Enjoyed it 🙂
I’m glad you stopped in. The blog has been running more or less daily for 3 years, so there’s a lot here!
Um glad too 😀 And I dont get to wait for ur next update cos I got a treasure of 3 yrs to look through 🙂