Best Poems Written by Grant Read

It's the Kalahari

The sun rose that morning like a freshly baked pie
Warm and golden
Its purpose prepared for the day ahead 
To torch the bald and hat less heads
Its was time to take its place in dust clogged sky

Its barely 6 am when the sounds
of the first cow bells ring 
as the beasts of burden make their way 
to find the last remnants of the dry brown hay
the grasses thirst for that first rain 
and the cattle search and search in vain

oh where are you black clouds and thunder 
its been a long long and warm dry winter 
as the day progresses the hope of rain dismisses 
oh if only that storm front from the north 
would makes its way and come forth

you can even smell the air its sweet aroma 
as the sound of thunder gets ever nearer
the anticipation of all of nature fills the air 
every creature
and when that ferocious downpour is at its finish
you think to yourself why so quick and why did you punish

but at least it has given you strength
to face another day, to go the length 
to put up with the heat and to say I’m sorry 
for ever wanting to leave this beautiful Kalahari

Copyright © Grant Read | Year Posted 2018