This is a poem I wrote some time ago but it seems appropriate to post today because it’s my first week back at university and it’s also ‘Poetry Day’ too. Have a great day everybody ๐
Approaching the building tall and imperious
In appearance it could house
Anything inside its vast system
Of caves, caverns and tunnels
But I know better because I have
Been to this place before
This is a place of words, pictures and images
Dreamt up by people far and wide
Names we know but many we donโt
Where theory and counter theory
Are discussed and debated at length
Long into a star lit night
Where reputations are forged from pages
And pages of volumes of thoughts
All arranged neatly in rows
Where questions can be answered
And further questions asked
Essayโs, assignments, thesisโs and more
Are all carefully crafted using the knowledge of others
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Of the past and taking their
Work to new undreamt of levels
Knowledge from the past is
Merged with knowledge from the present
To become the knowledge of the future
Row after row, aisle after aisle
Sits in this place waiting to be
Discovered by a new generation
Eager to absorb it all into their minds
And use it for the benefit of all
People on earth for all of mankind
To some this is just a building
To others it is a library to go and read in
But to me it is much, much more
Then any of this
To me this place and others like it
Are the Great Halls of Learning
Where thousands of years of knowledge
Is there for all to read and absorb
And pass on to generation after generation
For all of eternity and beyond
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