D. Wallace Peach, who blogs at https://mythsofthemirror.com, has posted a writing challenge. The challenge involves writing about all books someone has and hasn’t had time to read. In other words, their To Be Read (TBR) pile.
Here’s my effort.
My TBR Pile
TBR—to be read.
A pile of books beside my bed.
Now ebooks have arrived and so
On Kindle now, my books do go.
But Kindle just goes on and on
To fill it you are never done.
Books to improve myself are there,
To live my life without a care.
Books to improve my language skill.
(I am hoping that they will.)
I can escape this world and go
To another one, although
It might be a dystopian one.
One that’s scary, not much fun
I’ll live the lives of those who’ve gone;
I’ll solve a murder, live like a nun.
I’ll kill the dragon, love the child,
Cry with the forsaken, run with the wild.
Adventures wait, all on that pad
And more are added, good and bad.
Will I get time to read them all?
Not if I keep buying more.
I welcome your comments. Please add them to the comments box.
Your poem is lovely, it inspires me to read more books.
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Thank you. I’m glad to be an inspiration for more reading. 😃
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Thanks
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Great poem and relatable. Nice to meet you here with our TBR’s! 👏👏
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Good to meet you, too. There are some wonderful poems come out of this challenge.
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A great poem, Viv.
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Sounds like there’s no end. Best add another one… 🙂
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Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.
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Absolutely love it!!!
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Great response to the TBR prompt! My Kindle is getting pretty “heavy” too.:-)
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Very cool. Love it!
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Haha. I think we all suffer from heavy Kindles!
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Fun verse. Our piles and appetites for reading are never-ending.
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That’s odd. Your comment appears to be ‘continue reading here’.
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Great poem, Viv. The TBR pile only seems to grow…😊
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It certainly does. I just added 2 more to mine.😳
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Cool and so very very true…
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Thank you, Geoff. Glad you enjoyed it.
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Ha ha ha. That last lines got me chuckling. It’s insatiable, isn’t it? Thanks again for the poem, Viv. I can’t wait to share. 🙂
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Glad you liked it, Diana. It took me a while to get around to writing and posting it, but now it’s done. Thank you for the challenge. It was fun to do.
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My pleasure. 🙂
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