Prompt: "What is a special memory that has deepened your love and appreciation for reading?"
"I keep searching for tales that send me to wondrous worlds..."
Her vivid imagination, imagery, and use of rhyme throughout her poem highlights her strengths as a writer, truly showing how reading influenced her life as a young girl. #booklovers #poetry
See below for the full poem!
Reading Poem
By Anoushka Dalvi
In the basement of
the library,
there grows my
curiosity,
and words tumble out
of five-year old me
as I spell
B-I-R-D
In the pages of
my book,
birds rule the skies
and look-
there is my attention
caught on a hook
just a few words were
all it took
She opens her pages,
reads aloud
voice soft yet clear
even in this crowd
I can see the theater
alive and proud
ballerinas soaring-
my imagination, without a doubt.
Though those stories have
reached their end,
I keep searching for
tales that send
me to wondrous worlds
so I won’t have to pretend
that never once has reading
never been my friend.
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