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
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Утро
- Coming To This by Mark Strand
- Vertumnus and Pomona : Ovid’s Metamorphoses, book 14 [v. 623-771] poem – Alexander Pope
- Morris Island by William Gilmore Simms
- Николай Гербель – Ура, объявлена война
- Moonbeam flowers by Preeth Nambiar
- Denis poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Георгий Иванов – А может быть, еще и не конец
- Song of the Indian Maid, from ‘Endymion’ poem – John Keats poems
- Михаил Лермонтов – Блистая, пробегают облака
- Pañuelos de La Alhambra by Mara Romero Torres
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй
- Dilton Marsh Halt poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Summer poem – Alexander Pope
- What Reward? by Winifred Mary Letts
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