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
- Sea Shell poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Looking Fire
- Vivien
- Юлия Друнина – Ветер с фронта
- Ring Out Your Bells by Sir Philip Sidney
- Surprised By Joy by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: The Battle Of Sherramuir:
- Ballad of the Goodly Fere poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Hauntings by Rupert Brooke
- His Last Sonnet poem – John Keats poems
- The Ballad Of Father O’Hart by William Butler Yeats
- She and Drugs by Mark R Slaughter
- On Your Midnight Pallet Lying poem – A. E. Housman
- Say, Lad, Have You Things to Do? poem – A. E. Housman
- Гавриил Державин – О удовольствии
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