"Reading a Book"

Ana Hein
Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill School
St. Louis County, MO

"Reading a Book" by Ana Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill School St. Louis County, Missouri This video was taken at the 2013 7GP 7th Grade Poetry Contest Reading Event at the Central Library in St. Louis, MO. Read the poems of every 7GP winner at https://www.7gp.org.


Reading a book
 Can take you to faraway places:
  To a castle with dungeons and maces
   A land where people have no faces
    A heart where true love is honored above all
     The lives of teenagers who hang out at the mall
      The world of ghosts and goblins and ghouls
       A room where you find only fools
        To a friend that can be real or fake
         The nation of people whose lives are at stake
          A culture that is shrouded in mystery
           The lives of people who are part of history
            The galaxy of Fiblian where the Fiblanian are all male
             To the life of a girl who is hopelessly frail.
              Reading a book can take you to all these places and more—
               A boat to take you there is waiting on shore.