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The Kansan
by TD Euwaite

Midnight’s come and gone
Soon the sailor’s foreboding red morning sky
Will bring the dawn with west wind raging cross the prairie
April does not let you sleep
As shutters creek and shingles leak
The rain comes down in sheets and sheets
And all’s asleep, save one who watches
South by southwest, south by southwest…

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The Kansan
by TD Euwaite

Midnight’s come and gone
Soon the sailor’s foreboding red morning sky
Will bring the dawn with west wind raging cross the prairie
April does not let you sleep
As shutters creek and shingles leak
The rain comes down in sheets and sheets
And all’s asleep, save one who watches
South by southwest, south by southwest…

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Another in my list of your best poems. April is indeed the cruelest month.

that is a beautiful poem

Yes i will. :)

You could write an epic starting with those lines, you know? The Euwaitiad?
To answer your question, without chatting: I slept really well last night. It hadn't happened for a long time. No ghosts... Yesterday it was spring in Paris.

I am up for the night. I dare not look out the window.

Gee, TD, is Dorothy gonna
'Hold the Line'?
(That may just save her,THIS time
whoa, whoa, whoa...)

Well, the W.W. of the West is slowly approaching wakefulness.
Actually, that ought to be W.W of the Southwest, come to think of it. Is it morning, guess so.

Morning comes on little cat feet
I rise up and warmly greet
the sun that smiles through the cloud.
I feel so good I laugh out loud.

So, the symbolism of all the s's? S's as is sleep? Or alliteration? Sleep on it some more.

Very well put! It did indeed come down in sheets and sheets!
Makes for good sleeping though....
Good morning!

Reminds me of covered wagons Indians & Heading west to the new Frontier.........Nice ,,,Real nice

Really nice Spring poem!

Yankees won
Hooray!!!