Notes About The Poem

This actually happened to me in December, 1977...

Season's Songs In Mind

There I was in Tel Aviv
  on my way to work
Sweltering Middle-East sun
  a most unwelcome perk

December morning's
  dusty, choking heat
creaky, crowded buses
  melting asphalt streets

Yet as I walked the final 
  blocks to my daily grind
I found myself a-humming
  season's songs in mind:

'Silver Bells' and 'Silent Night'
  the words seeped from my lips
Was I in the 'Jewish State'
  ~ or had my brain played tricks
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Krutsinger Avatar
December 17, 2020 at 6:06 AM
I can relate. I was in a desert one Christmas without frost, ice, snow or winter mix. Christmas carols felt forced to me in seventy degree sunny weather.
Hamill Avatar
December 16, 2020 at 6:17 PM
Ho ho ho.merry Xmas. We need something to make us all feel better.take care.simon:)
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