Tom Zart Poems

Born in Britain late in the fourth century
Young Patrick's father was a deacon of the church.
Victim of raiders coming ashore at night
He was taken beyond his family's search.
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Pioneers learned to adapt
To their strange demands of life
From the moment they left home
With their wagon, children and wife.
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Life's a book written through
Where the pages are the years.
There's good, evil, false and true
With laughter, sweat, and tears.
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Glorious is this world of ours
And the way we feel within
Where sometimes love plants its seed
In the hearts of women and men.
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Glorious is this world of ours
And the way we feel within
Where sometimes love plants its seed
In the hearts of women and men.
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Around 1615 coffee came to Western Europe
Raising a huge controversy and warning cry.
Some said it was intoxicating and poisonous
And any whom consume it will die.
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America, the abundant, the place I was born
I'll cherish till the day I die.
Where the bones of past heroes lie buried in the ground
Who loved her the same as I.
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Wherever dwell the mad dogs of man
There is corruption, plunder and hate.
In every city, town or village
Those who promote distrust deserve their fate.
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An angry man opens his mouth
And shuts his mind to reason.
He who stays slow to anger
Is loved by more each season.
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With looming worries about jobs, homes and healthcare
College debt, terrorism and disease.
Americans seek clear options this November
As we pray for those we vote for on our knees.
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