Showing posts with label In the Season of the Perseids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label In the Season of the Perseids. Show all posts

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