Just Think of How It Was That Hot July

July 4, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is Independence Day (USA), which is celebrated today, July 4th.

Today’s poem is a July 4^th poem imagining what it was like to rebel in 1776.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Just think of how it was that hot July

Under threat of being hanged for treason.

Let yourself have faith enough to die,

Yet let that faith be in the power of reason.

Feel the heady fear of rash rebellion,

Of chaos, blood, death, vengeance, mayhem, blight.

Unleash with noble words that ancient hellion

Reigning cruelly over years of night.

They turned out to be right, those bold, brave men.

However, think what terrors faced them then.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/justth.html. For more poems for Independence Day, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/july4thpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Independence Day (USA)

July 3: Fantasies Endure the Test of Time

July 4: Just Think of How It Was That Hot July