Celebration of "One Minute Before Bedtime"

This is one of the poems that didn't make it into the book - but it was then accepted by Ford Street Publishing for "Rich and Rare". Lovely that it found a home!

Story World

Here in my shadowed room

one light spreads a cloak

across my bed.

Outside, the wind whines,

pulls at the leaves on the trees,

flaps the shutters back and forth,

but in here the evening is still,

the book lies open

near my pillow, promising

adventure and rollicking ramblings,

a hero and his dog,

a heroine and her speeding horse,

all racing to an ending I must hear

one more time

before I close my eyes

and venture into my world of dreams,

a journey there and back

all the way to dawn.

If you'd like to read some more poems on the blog tour, go here to Jackie Hosking's blog.