Poems About: AUGUST

India is a nation
Pride and bright
Its not people or misdeed
India is extraterrestrial music read more »

STILL shines our August day, as calm, as bright
As when, long years ago, we sailied away
Down the blue Narrows and the widening bay read more »

When August days are hot an' dry,
When burning copper is the sky,
I 'd rather fish than feast or fly
In airy realms serene and high. read more »

Posted August 2009.

Elvis Presley, the King of Rock 'n' Roll.
Presley the legend, generous, talented soul. read more »

(DEDICATED TO BERNIE MAC WHO DIED AUGUST 9,2008.)

He was a credit to people who are black.
The person who I'm speaking of was Bernie Mac. read more »

Bird's nest
a golden pride
back to roost read more »

Say what you want to
Write whatever you will
For what the August House is about to do
Will entrench media freedom read more »

Do you know why it’s so hard to let go?
Because it’s impossible to forget your memories
But if you think that’s hard to have happy memories
Imagine having only sad ones to hold on to read more »

I should like to relate this memory ...
but it is so faded now ... scarecely anthing is left --
because it lies far off, in the years of my early manhood. read more »

From Claramore the rill in flood flow brown
Through Claraghatlea a mile from Millstreet Town
And dark to gray rain clouds across the sky
Tell that more heavy showers of rain are nigh. read more »

'In my thoughts the train of the wishes runs along the opposite way'
Paolo Conte

On August the tenth, you can see the shooting stars in the sky. read more »

The weather rather chilly it is cold enough to snow
And the flat paddocks under water where the Powlett river overflow
And even in the distance one can hear the ocean roar
As the tide up the beach races and splash on rocks along the shore. read more »