A Flash Poem for Thursday

Anguish prevailed
Thicken(ing) smoke
Rain began
Softly falling

People cheered
Fire extinguished
Smoke congealed
Harder rain
Flushed countryside

Sunshine appeared
Tender warmness
Soothing harassed
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- Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2018, All Rights Reserved
- I'm linked with Sanaa Rizvi in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/07/get-listed-july-edition.html?m=1
- This is a short, limited word "Flash" poem. Sanaa has requested we limit our writing to 100 words and use one of several selections of 'four words.' My four words are the first, starting, words in the each if the first four lines.
- My poem has 24 words.

Good fight, for ... a Tuesday Poem

Harry and Joeie

Harry and Joeie were lovers
Together they went off to war
They'd fight the battles of the world
And make what was wrong come out right

Harry and Joeie were quite sure
Sure their causes were worthy and right
And forgetting the writer's lines
Lines told Only the good die young

Harry and Joeie off at war
Valiantly they fought gave their best
And where there's war there's casualties
Bruised beaten and shot they came back

Repaired they'd never be the same
Unending war it won't be won
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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2018, All Rights Reserved
 - I'm  linked with Sanaa Rizvi in the Imaginary Garden at   http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-tuesday-platform_17.html?m=1
 - I wrote this with the intent that it would NOT HAVE TO BE A WAR poem but rather a couple's battle against the tribulations of life.  I didn't say this and it seems all who read it took it as a war poem, slightly anti-war which was in mind also when I wrote it.
 - Mrs. Jim did have a brother who was killed in WWII, his airplane, a P38, was shot down over Italy by the Germans.