PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

I heard Imagine, one of my favorite songs, this Juneteenth morning

and thought how John Lennons’s lyrics and music still ring true….

I suppose that’s because imagining is also one of my favorite things to do.

When I’m shocked and saddened at the hatred and prejudice I see

I imagine a world where people embrace our differences and live together in harmony.

When I look at the greed and selfishness occurring right outside my front door

I image a world where we feed the hungry…and house and clothe the poor.

When I see how we are heartlessly polluting the Earth’s skies, and land and seas

I imagine a world where we live in balance with the rivers, the animals and the trees.

When I think we are too accepting of people’s hate…and wait too long for it to start abating…

I imagine a world where we our love defeats the people who are hating.

Of course you may say I’m a dreamer…but that’s okay with me

because what helps to soothe my heart is knowing I’m in good company

I don’t always have to imagine a better world, however, because when also in front of me

acceptance, love, compassion and kindness are also plain to see.

Every time there’s a natural disaster…as we watch those affected try to cope

I see diverse neighbors and strangers coming together…offering friendship…kindness and hope. 

Every time a countries goes to war…after every bomb their planes release…

I see people on both sides coming together in unity…

pleading for harmony and peace.

For every act of prejudice and bigotry that result in sorrow and despairing…

I see random act of kindness…I see empathy, love and caring.

For every sorrow that results from every needless death across this Earth…

there is the joy that fills the air from every newborn baby’s birth.

When I stop to think about the world I’m living…what is so evident to me

is how half the time I am disgusted…and the other half encouraged by what I see…

Which makes me wonder if enough of us dreamers

(for I believe there are more dreamers than haters in the world I see)

If enough of us got together

we could turn our imaginations…into reality,

Today I’m grateful for imagination…and for the wisdom of Albert Einstein…

Whose knowledge and imagination were truly grand…

Who said knowledge is limited to only what we know and understand….

Who reminded us how  imagination can take us to unknown worlds and unknown lands

embracing entire universes and all there ever will be…

to know and understand.

Today I’m grateful for my ability to imagine

when alone or in a crowd...
I can imagine whales that fly, trees that talk, and castles in the clouds.

I can even imagine a world at peace...an ice cream that's non-fat...
but a life without imagination...I just can't imagine that.

May we be blessed to to support our children

in any and all of their endeavors and creations…

to encourage their heart and minds and souls…

and never close a door on their imagination

 People love the rolling ladder in our store.

We use it to shelve some of our rarer sets of books.

Many people who enter tell us how great that ladder looks.

But to me that ladder is much more than a 10,000 year old innovation.

It is a symbol…a gesture…a stairway to ones imagination.

Our store is filled with people who climbed the ladder of their imagination

and when they stopped to take a look…

Wrote down or drew everything they saw 

and shared with us their book.

And we get to go along with them as they climb that ladder 

all the way up to the moon…

As they ride whales, befriend dragons, or ride in a big balloon.

As they talk to animals, storm castles, feast with queens and kings…

or from the comfort of their bedroom visit the land of wild things.

Yes, the bookstore is filled with stories other people wrote

as they climbed the ladder of their imagination…

and we love to read their words and visit the lands of their creation.

But the ladder in our bookstore stands as a reminder…

that our own ladder of imagination is with us all the time…

standing proud and tall and ready…

for us to begin the climb…