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
- Adelgitha by Thomas Campbell
- Baseball and Writing by Marianne Moore
- Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman by William Wordsworth
- Юлия Друнина – Жизнь моя не катилась
- On The New Forcers Of Conscience Under The Long Parliament poem – John Milton poems
- “Veruca Salt…” by Roald Dahl
- Владимир Набоков – В полнолунье, в гостиной пыльной и пышной
- Sonnet LVII by William Shakespeare
- Ash-Boughs poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Black Lake by Memphis Knight
- Revenge of the Ghost of the Betrayed Husband by Raj Arumugam
- Sonnet # 21 by Luis A. Estable
- Владимир Маяковский – Севастопольский корреспондент “Матен” сообщает… (РОСТА №507)
- Native Moments. by Walt Whitman
- To Be Blind
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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).
