Sitting on my own
Drinking my coffee,
Engrossed in my feelings of life,
I looked up.
There across the room
Sitting quietly in the corner,
The corner of the coffee house
Was a lady reading,
Reading a book.
She was so engrossed,
So wonderful to see
As it was doing to her
What it does for me.
Reading takes you away
To a different place,
Where your own worries
Do not exist.
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Goldfinch60 (Pseudonym) (
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- Comment from author about the poem: I wrote this while sitting in my coffee house yesterday morning, I saw this lady reading a book. I walked over and gave her a copy of the poem.
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Good write Gold.
Thank you Orchi.
Reading indeed engrosses our Soul in, devoid of worries !! Good one !!
Thank you Vamsi, it certainly does. I finished reading a book at about o'clock this morning that had totally engrossed me.
Andy
what can one say except well observed my friend and of course, read on .............................. Neville
Thank you Neville, much appreciated.
Andy
The people watching poems you write bring up all kinds of subjects. How brave you are to present your writing to strangers. I would be afraid that it would be seen as a chat-up tecnique in the circumstance you describe with a lady alone.
For me reading has become a luxury reserved now for liesure times away from home now. I started a Grisham novel in hospital but it remains half read. Roll on nicer weather and days out in the car with a peaceful read.
I have given poems to people very often, I wrote one once for a group of people going to the Cheltenham horse racing who had stopped in for a coffee, they enjoyed it.
Reading I can get hooked on. When I read The Day of the Jackal I read it in one go, finished it about 3 in the morning, it was the only book I have read in one go.
Andy
What a nice gesture. I hope she enjoyed it as much as we did.
Thank you Nicholas, so do I. I have done it many times in the passed and most enjoy my writing for them.
Andy
Absolutely. I couldnt agree more with the sentiment expressed. A mind escape, reading is!
Thankyou Garth, it certainly is a mind release.
Andy
A bookaholic I am
So true you describe the addiction stored
While the lady was reading a book
You surely were reading a life book
And a reader and poet is a wonderful combination
It adds to intuition of people
I wonder what was the lady’s reaction to the poetry of yours
Thank you spilleronsheet, I have often written poems for people in the coffee house and given them to the people and most comment, this lady unfortunately did not.
Andy
Ohhh
What a wonderful sight
What a wonderful time
To be gifted a poetry
I wish I could be in that coffee shop then
You are a master Andy. It would have been a shock for her and also a nice feeling to know that her reading has inspired the poet in you.
Thank you tkkkk, I often write poems about what I see in everyday life.
Andy
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