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
- Ballade: In favour of those called Decadents and Symbolists, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s Ballade: En faveur des dénommés Déca by T Wignesan
- The Merchant by Rabindranath Tagore
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Ночной пилигрим
- The Dying Christian to His Soul poem – Alexander Pope
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я уверен, как ни разу в жизни
- Abbey Assaroe by William Allingham
- Epitaph on a Tyrant by W. H. Auden
- Chorus of Athenians poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Ольга Берггольц – Таков мой подарок тебе за измену
- Wintering by Sylvia Plath
- True Love by Robert Penn Warren
- Алексей Толстой – Сватовство
- Robert Burns: Down The Burn, Davie:
- AN EPITAPH UPON A CHILD by Robert Herrick
- English Poetry. David Herbert Lawrence. Whales Weep Not!. Дэвид Герберт Лоуренс.
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