STRAINING TO CATCH EVERY LEAF
Selected Poems 2010-2016
From intricately crafted sonnets to powerfully raw free verse, STRAINING TO CATCH EVERY LEAF includes a wide variety of poems to appeal to the eternally curious. Poet P. D. Kline's wistful verses capture the uncertainties of life and the attraction of the unknown. In this unique collection, he explores life, death, hope, parenthood, and more.
Published & Released 2017
BESEECHING THE SONS OF LIBERTY O Sons of Liberty
(her name so sweet),
where are you now
(in whispers ought we speak)?
By land or sea no martial force
could break your will of stone
with blood-notched guns and swords
to keep you as its own.
What such ferocious thirst was yours,
her cup to drink at any price,
her honor you preserved throughout
with fierce defiant sacrifice!
In time her sentries fell asleep,
their battle-hewn resolve forsaken,
our shields of self-reliance shelved,
your rebel masterpiece rewritten.
Within her house an enemy,
perverted rapist dressed to kill,
is stalking where she lays her head
to smear her name and take his fill.
O Sons of Liberty,
a fractured nation needs your eyes
to see the way she used to look,
to rip away the reaper's guise.
If we're too late and find her gone,
we'll form a line, the last to stand,
before your tried and careful aim
return us to our blessed land.