D.E.A.R. Day

In honor of Drop Everything And Read Day (and of Beverly Cleary, whose birthday it is) here is a Free verse poem about books:

BOOKS

I step through your cover,

A cardboard tunnel

Through a black hole,

Out a garden gate,

Over a moor,

Through a sally port,

Down a rabbit hole,

Along a dark alley,

Out an escape hatch,

And across the roofs of a forgotten city

From my world

Into countless others.

Your pages thrill me and kill me,

Fill me with anticipation.

I drink it in, thirsty for pages, words,

And far-flung vistas.

I am the wanderer,

The intrepid explorer,

The roaring mouse,

The fighter of strange battles

The beloved but hated,

The free and enslaved,

The damaged searcher,

The hopeless and hopeful,

The triumphant.

I am your

Reader.

© 2015 by H. Linn Murphy

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