Saturday, 14 September 2019

Poem for the Day – Two



This is by design a wide ranging anthology, not based on a theme or style or time period, but just the simple task of offering a poem to the reader each day of the year.

From it I will share just one poem, Sheenagh Pugh’s Sometimes, which I read on 20th Dec 2018.

Sometimes things don’t go, after all,
from bad to worse. Some years, muscadel
faces down frost; green thrives; the crops don’t fail,
sometimes a man aims high, and all goes well.

A people sometimes will step back from war;
elect an honest man; decide they care
enough, that they can’t leave a stranger poor.
Some men become what they were born for.

Sometimes our best efforts do not go
amiss; sometimes we do as we meant to.
The sun will sometimes melt a field of sorrow
that seemed hard frozen: may it happen for you.

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