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
- Diary of a Palestinian Wound by Mahmoud Darwish
- Владимир Гиляровский – Нива
- A Sight in Camp. by Walt Whitman
- Serendipity by Seema Gupta
- Epistle from Mr. Somerville, An by William Somervile
- Низами Гянджеви – Искендер-наме – Страница 13 из 15
- Sonet 58 by William Alexander
- A Winter Eden by Robert Frost
- Mother Teresa by Raj Napal
- Владимир Высоцкий – О нашей встрече
- Full Moon and Little Frieda by Ted Hughes
- Pathos Is The Skyward Tanka
- Lunch by Ross D Tyler
- Владимир Корнилов – Трофейный фильм
- Sonnet CXXIX by William Shakespeare
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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).
