Do you judge a book by its cover?

I know we are told not to, but don't we? I certainly do. I glance at all kinds of books and the one I want appeals visually first. I am not sure we can help it. So I went to my publishing site and looked as some templates for covers. Here are two more covers with a little more professionalism to them. Your input really matters to me. To me they both look pretty, but I don't know which one a person would pick up and say "I gotta read this!"

What should my new cover be?

I am working on the cover of my next book Reaching The Castle Wall. A composition of poetry about the love and heartache we enduring trying to find true love. The poetry will make references to well known fairy tales and also just have a flair for fairy tale times like dragons, knights, maidens, and mystical kingdoms. Very excited to start, already have a few under my belt. Working on the cover just makes it start becoming real and inspires me to really get at it. I have found a couple of images I like, but really can't decide. I don't want it to be to busy, but at the same time eye catching and alluring. Which would you just have to pick up? The top one? Or the bottom one?

Someday

Time to start working on the next project. My next book title is "Reaching the Castle Wall" poetry based on finding love. From love at first sight to the first kiss, and heartache as well as finding true love, I want to encompass the entire journey of finding that one someone who makes you happy.

Someday

“Someday I will go there.”  He says to himself,

“Someday with time and quite a bit of wealth.”

But he can dream of this wonderful someday

How else does it come to be, this “someday”?

What is a dream? If it not a lofty plan?

To what one can do, be he a courageous man

So we gather our pennies this courageous man and I

And set to dreaming of where we can fly

It will be years if not decades for us reach

The land afar with a white sandy beach

But once we go we could not be caught

In just one place to which we plot

No, the dream is a just gateway

Just a single step into a doorway

And from a dream it will birth such a life

That no one could fathom no matter the strife

One place will lead to another

An endless world of adventurous wonder

And my courageous man will lead me

And I- I will follow him freely

Hand in hand, in a distant land

Finally arriving to where we planned

An adventure awaits us and we are on our way

To a place we dreamed and called “Someday”