Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DROUGHT - 1936, by MILDRED MCGINN DOYLE


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DROUGHT - 1936, by                    
First Line: The day winds are cruel winds
Last Line: Prayers for god's gift of rain.
Subject(s): Drought


The day winds are cruel winds,
Torrid winds whipping and burning
And torturing a gasping earth.

The still nights are sleepless nights
With heat ghosts parading over the sered grass
Of a new desert.

The trees are silent sufferers
With curling leaves
Clutching and pleading for moisture.

Hordes of grasshoppers, green and gold
Thump from stem to stem
Like vicious buzzards stealing life.

Drought. From the open church windows
Chanted litanies are heard --
Prayers for God's gift of rain.





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