Other Poems

African City

The sun shines
Brightly
Beating down
On the children
To a school.
Trees line the
Streets providing
A meager
Shade.
Grass grows
Lush in the
Red brown
Earth.
Men walk
In search
Of work.
Flowers and
Birds sing.
They dance
Displaying
the many
colors of
Pretoria.

THE Tree

A place, a thing
Ancient, Old, Wise
And Magnificent.
Standing Strong
Against the Winds
And Currents
Of Time.

Leafy green boughs
Protecting those who
Rest on its arms
Holding gently, protecting
Against the harsh wild
summer sun. A
coolness is found
Here
in
THE tree.