To coincide with the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the QNIS Wellbeing Book Group has written a poem expressing the joy of reading, and how books and the stories within them spark the imagination.
Books?! The excitement of a new one! What will I meet?
How will it change my world: Will I laugh, sigh, smile or greet?
Pages and words become friends, characters develop, stories unfold.
Time disappears, a world of imagination, conjured up from pictures.
We escape.
New pages like cut grass evokes memories and comfort.
An adventure in my hand, the promise, the excitement: mine alone in this world.
Each read transports you into the text, allowing rest, peace, quietness and thought.
A page, chapter or book draws you in, a new reality.
Favourite authors excite, new releases, titles sit proudly on shelves.
We talk and share, we reach deep into our hearts, soul or thoughts.
Life is enriched with books, the genres available, infinite variety.
Self help, autobiographies, murder, romance, academic, holiday reads.
The literature world is vast.
Emotions provoked. Messages powerful. They educate and stimulate.
Read one, go on a reading vacation, it’s the best break you will have.
A unique life library, coloured in your imagination. Your story to tell.
Knowledge. Imagination. Ideas
Fill my head over the years.
A life companion, giving escapism, knowledge, therapy, love, laughter, tears
as well as friendship, from fellow readers along the way.
A word, a sentence, a thought, a poem; there to provide comfort, laughter, and offer peace.
Opening a book, like opening a door to another world, a journey with no map, makes you laugh and cry and nurtures your soul along the way.
Leaves you wanting more, when you reach your destination.
Written by
Fiona, Gill, Nicola, Emma.
