{"id":3566,"date":"2020-06-15T11:57:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T11:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/?p=3566"},"modified":"2020-06-24T10:00:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T10:00:33","slug":"the-reading-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/?p=3566","title":{"rendered":"The Reading Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes there’s the need to close all the doors,<\/strong><\/em>
The outside world’s nonsense, shut out, put on pause;<\/strong><\/em>
Settle down with a book in a comfortable chair,<\/strong><\/em>
And spend a hour or two just relaxing there.\u00a0<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>

\"TPOTG<\/p>

In a favourite room, in a favourite house,
\u00a0Which good fortune allows me to call home,
Is where I escape and loose myself,
In a novel, or some historical tome.<\/p>\n\n

The room, almost square, hushed by walls of thick stone,
Looks to the mountain that protects it so well,
\u00a0And its old well trodden, polished wood floor,
Must have many a tale it could tell.<\/p>\n\n

Now shelves filled with books, pages full of words,
Sit in anticipation of their turn to be read.
And in my winged back chair I can often be found,
When I\u2019ve swapped my garden for a good book instead.<\/p>\n\n

Reference books nestle alongside those full of verse,
And novels, classic and modern, abound;
The history of the world is there to explore,
While biographies wait to be found.<\/p>\n\n

A room filled with riches, of literary treasures,
\u00a0Some, their secrets have yet to be told,
And it’s there, with the books, that I immerse myself,
And let the magic around me unfold.<\/p>


\"\"<\/p>

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Sometimes there’s the need to close all the doors,The outside world’s nonsense, shut out, put on pause;Settle down with a book in a comfortable chair,And spend a hour or two just relaxing there.\u00a0 In a favourite room, in a favourite house,\u00a0Which good fortune allows me to call home,Is where I…<\/p>\n

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