New Poem

Here's a new one for all you old Beatles fans:

I Want to Tell You

John’s been shot down,

taken down to the Strawberry Field

across the park

where he’ll live for a time

until time takes him by the hand

into some dim corner of a story

vaguely remembered

like the lost soldiers

of the great war

spinning out

across the universe.

But we still hear him singing

Give Peace a Chance...

Imagine, peace.

George, too, has passed

along with all things

that must.

Guitar gently weeping

like an old brown shoe,

he was with us

and without us

trying to reach us

with heart and soul.

It’s been a long, cold, lonely

winter since he passed.

But we still hear him singing

Here Comes the Sun…

© Joe Larkin