Hovea Music Press

Poetry As Such No. 2

Summertime Poems

John Joseph Jones

artwork by

Lawrence John Jones


Titles and first few lines

1. A Place of Peace

This is a home where swallows build
and doves come...

2. Summer's Lesson

I gave upon a leaf so fair
That fell from branch of fruitless pear...

3. The Litter Tree

The shopway path of bitumen
is black and in summer hot...

4. Olive Time

Olive time is a time of love.
The world is an olive...

© John Joseph Jones 1994

All poems in Summertime Poems, except Summer's Lesson, were first published in A Day at Hiroshima, Parkerville and other Poems (RRP AU$26) by The Parkerville Amphitheatre (1983), available from the amphitheatre direct on +61 9 2954269 or through Hovea Music Press (please email).

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