Warming signs
John Clare Stokes
For years they dwelt beside the shady quiet road
Kept the front yard neatly swept
The petunias and posies in the clay pots
Dressed their best for worship down
At the Greater Poplar Springs Missionary
They were part of the good times
Before the naming of the shady road
after brother Martin Luther King
When in the neighborhood, before it
was a hood,the children were good
Minded a daddy who was there
There with granny and her husband
Didn’t need no ole Lyndon Baines to
Rebuild this already great society
But he did as the old ways died
And so the remnants of how it was
Linger about
Exposed for those who can’t recall
How warm homes hearth used to be.
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