Poems for Weekly Challenge

Barbados Beckoning

Barbados Beckoning

At a family gathering
Sam Adams talked
About travel plans
Making vacation itineraries.

Setting the clock
For dawn
Looking at the fallen
leaves on the ground

winter storm warnings
sky pregnant with impending snow
Cold winter nights ahead.

He announced

it is time to escape to the islands.
To escape the winter blues
to rediscover

a tranquil place
a peaceful place
a delightful place

"Barbados is beckoning
The rum sours are waiting "

He could hear
the steel pan bands
playing on the beach
in his mind.

He put on the old classic
steel drum song

"come back to Barbados
come back to me "

Author Note: I served in Barbados from 2007 to 2010. Time for a return to the islands.

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PPC Weekly Prompt
Week # 42




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