Long Drouth Poems

This summer, as ever, there's much to do.
But only one or two things I want to do.

I told Alan that, like him, I'm never bored.
But today, like a teenager, I'm both tired and bored.

The long...

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And her beloved son grew alongside her like clinging vines.
During the capitulation of the Old South.
The era of a bitter drouth.

They lived hopefully from her skills as a midwife.
And though some days were gruesome for...

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Leaving the War Behind
for Elihu Burritt, peacemaker

The cannon thundered in the South,
    	And with the sound
     	The carols drowned
Of peace on earth, good-will to men! 
- H. W....

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Canada needed a hero but a fowl mouth                           ...

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Here I go again 
with the midnight rain
late night birds twittering in their nest
I hear the whistle - the night guard blows 
rest of the world - I see repose.

Here I go again
with the darkness...

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Come into the empty house
An unlocked door invites
See everything is in order
But there's grayness despite

No meal bubbling on the range
No aroma of baking bread
Absent sounds, blue loneliness
Hollow, empty, silent dread

Then mother lost her good job
She's...

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outside the city where the pomegranates grow,
is where we buried the years six feet below.
all of the magic clung to the tragic
and we knew it was not time yet to go.

but of all the love,...

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World from me swiftly depart
Quiet all the bustle especially the tongue
Let me today hear only messages from the heart
Let me remember those years when young

When there was not reason for a drouth
All was well and...

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The Dry Monsoon 
David J Walker


All through the town 
	On abandoned streets
They shed the prairie gown 

And danced naked at sundown
Assured that rain defeats 

The drouth that choaks and heats
The day beyond belief

Both the Moon...

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