Thursday, 26 October 2023

From Mexico to Maine

Fierce autumn wind tears at our coats

Torrents splash and spill down drains

Jack Frost bides his time and gloats

Delays upset commuter trains...

 

Lone gunman* kills in quiet Maine,

Fast Acapulco floods are dire

Journalists exit the Ukraine

To Middle East – on tightrope wire …

 

I seek some good news to impart

As homeless and food prices rise

But who can kindle one bright spark

And bring hope to our next sunrise?


(c) Poet in the woods 2023



Acapulco, Mexico

* 27th October: Robert Card (found dead) killed 18 people in a bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine.


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