Friday, July 30, 2021

In the Season of the Perseids - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com 

https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

 

In the Season of the Perseids

 

Most people find beauty in everything:

An old Peterson’s pipe, crickets, Irish coins

Fire trucks, fountain pens, a favourite old book

Cattails growing in ditches along the road

 

Short strings of words that breathe and sigh as songs

Sunflowers fainting in the afternoon

A treefrog pulsing on the windowpane

Ladybugs drowsing on a tomato leaf

 

Even so, how hard it is to feel beauty

In late July’s wearying, withering heat

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