PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

Today I’m thankful for the ability to dance

and for having read the words of people like Vicki Baum…a gifted Austrian writer

Who through her writing helped to make our world a little brighter  

Like the day in her life when she penned this little gem

There are shortcuts to happiness she wrote

and dancing is one of them

 The other night at work I had mellow ’60’s music playing in the store

when a couple carrying their young son entered through the door.

Guessing someone’s age the more I age is harder and harder for me

but by the way he toddled through the store I’d say he was two or maybe three.

When he toddled up to the speaker where the music was playing

he stopped…he listened and when he finally felt the beat….

faster than you can say Richie Havens…he began to move his feet.

He toddle-danced left…he toddle-danced right then he began to bounce up and down

and the more the music moved him…he started spinning round and round.

But a toddler can only spin so much…three times…maybe four…

before dizziness and gravity directed him to the floor.

He’d sit there for a moment staring…smiling at me…and then

moved once more by the music…he’d begin to dance again.

It was fun to watch this little boy move to the beat and toddle-dance to the rhythm…

and fun to watch all the customers who couldn’t walk by 

without stopping to toddle-dance with him.

If you don’t think music is universal…that it can’t bring people together…

that it doesn’t our world enhance…

I invite you into our bookstore where you can listen to the music

and where, if you’re lucky, you can watch toddlers and people dance.

Oh yea!  As Boe the owner of the bookstore likes to remind me…

I also have a job to do…

So while you’re listening to the music…

and watching toddlers and people dance…

It’d be great if…you would buy a book or two.