Treasure you will find in books - Poem by Angela Lansbury

Samuel Johnson reading

An Avid Reader's Adventures

A library is a place where the ghosts of past geniuses come alive

A vast party, like a silent film, pictures and texts, leading you along

Did you dance along perfumed paths, bouncing bright and happy as a child

Toss aside warped weeds, shrug, and excitedly share good news so joy doubled?

Did you sing as you sailed life's seas, feeling favoured

Were you fearful and shocked, reading of storms and close friends' troubles?

(More in the book.) ....

When hungry for recipes and anchors for your life

Did you buy books of success which skilled writers cook

Pick through the high piles of history, travel and mystery

Centuries of countries forgotten' feasts crammed into each prized book.

The Tailor