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Removed poem

Pom elevated

Poem revised.

The first six lines are not on par with thr exquisite and delicious detail of rebalance of the poem. There are many exotic and unexpected images here, so that I think one or two lines depicting the ravages of the weathe
*before* the swallowa and red dust,
would advance the poem.

Difficult to make a poem on a topic covered millions of times, interesting.
You succeed with fresh imagery.

I might question the lamb, and love shed as being more Easter than Christmas and possibly trade them for a reference to ths birth celebrated

You do have some nice imagery, as in the first stanza

Lead pipes would burst at the first drop
in temperature, whereas when Simoom blew
nineteen hundred miles the town awoke
to a covering of red dust and the sound
of tens of thousands of swallows.

Thank you very much,

thanks for the comments.

I like this shortened version. I esp. love the "swallows and swifts piping". There is a stray "e" in the first stanza, at the end of a line:

floods e

Enjoyed...Bob

My final version