First a bright, brief drum roll,
A bang and explosion into the blue day.
Then a noise, like rockets climbing on
Iron rails. Fear and long silence.
Then suddenly in the distance smoke and a fall,
A strange hard dark echo.
The Grenade
Alfred Lichtenstein
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Poem topics: dark, fear, silence, blue, long, bright, hard, iron, noise, suddenly, strange, Valentine's Day, distance, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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