Heat Wave
by Norma Martiri
Outstretched limbs shelter us
as we slowly sip iced tea.
Sweaty glasses compete against sweaty bodies.
Mango juice drips down our arms as the
familiar summer flavour bursts in our mouths.
The children squeal with cool delight
playing endless games in the spouting sprinkler.
The poor old dog sits in the dirt
panting, panting, struggling.
He listens to the friendly banter
hanging in the stifling air.
Then a sudden breeze wraps around us
like a cool, wet layer of pleasure
that at last offers welcomed relief.
Life is good under the mango tree.
Copyright ©: 2011
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Иван Мятлев – Приди, приди
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- Sonnet To The Nile poem – John Keats poems
- Love by Robert Creeley
- The Self and the Mulberry by Marvin Bell
- By the Dusk – Ao Entardecer by Soaroir de Campos
- My Search by Renu Ayyar
- The Golden Year! poem – Alfred Austin
- Sonnet LXIII by William Shakespeare
- Lines On The Expected Invasion, 1803 by William Wordsworth
- Me, The Wind and the Old Shadow by Walter William Safar
- Verdad Innegable by Victoria Luisa Mora Paoli
- Sonet 50 by William Alexander
- Омар Хайям – Если бог не услышит меня в вышине
- France, the 18th year of These States. by Walt Whitman
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
