Poems About: JULY

Fighting in Afghanistan,
the US vivisects it
without a clear, decisive plan
for any form of exit. read more »

We are now well in to the month of July,
But above my head, there's a leaden sky.
For days on end, it has constantly rained,
And I must say that it's a right old pain. read more »

Down a road at a country church,
I could hear the preacher tellin' us 'bout the good ol' days,
Where the country choirs and good time revivals,
Meant everything to people in town, read more »

July 1989
Alone I watched the Full Moon rise tonight.
The same Moon rose over you just hours ago.
Did you also watch it rise? Did clouds obscure the view? read more »

Wanna' know how many lil' kids
Go to bed hungry in the U.SA
Each night? read more »

I remember a wonderful day
It was the day I met you for the first time
I don't remember what made that day so wonderful
Maybe it was the the way you could always have fun and you were always smiling read more »

Mommy

Mommy, mommy
what’s going on in the world today? read more »

The countryside around wore Summer colours
The haycocks in mown meadows standing white
And the pasture fields surrounded by green hedgerows
Resplendent in the afternoon sunlight. read more »

During this special time of the year
The corn is usually knee-high,
The watermelons are juicy
As flags wave proudly in the sky! read more »

On a warm summer day, I glanced at the sky,
On July 8th,1947, I saw a circle-like object a high,
Intent to search our world, the unidentified flying object,
A so-called encounter against humanity, the search project, read more »

Everything’s looted, betrayed and traded,
black death’s wing’s overhead.
Everything’s eaten by hunger, unsated,
so why does a light shine ahead? read more »

In the flashes and black shadows
of July
the days, locked in each other's arms,
seem still read more »