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Sanaa here (aka adashofsunny)

Today, we are running LIVE for the first one hour of the bar i.e. from 3PM to 4PM EST. If you wish to join in to read out your poem, just link up, and you will be called upon to do so in respective order. Here is the link below:

https://meet.google.com/cxa-afib-awg

We are using Google Meet, which means that you should be able to click on the link and run it in the browser, but if that doesn’t work download the app and run it on your Smartphone or Tablet.

I recommend that you use a headset for the best experience, and please mute your microphone when you are not talking.

The month of July brings with it cooling showers, apricots and gillyflowers according to the poet Sara Coleridge; well, to be quite honest, it doesn’t seem like a bad deal to me. A city dweller such as myself takes whatever comes along the way, and makes beauty of it.

INNISKEEN ROAD: JULY EVENING

By Patrick Kavanagh

The bicycles go by in twos and threes –
There’s a dance in Billy Brennan’s barn to-night,
And there’s the half-talk code of mysteries
And the wink-and-elbow language of delight.
Half-past eight and there is not a spot
Upon a mile of road, no shadow thrown
That might turn out a man or woman, not
A footfall tapping secrecies of stone.
I have what every poet hates in spite
Of all the solemn talk of contemplation.

Oh, Alexander Selkirk knew the plight
Of being king and government and nation.
A road, a mile of kingdom, I am king
Of banks and stones and every blooming thing.

Amazing, isn’t he? Do let me know what your reading preferences are during the month of July in the comment section below. For now, let’s link up one poem!

I look forward to welcoming you on Google Meet.