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junemac
Senior Member

since 2003-04-24

Posts 1005
uk

0 posted 2004-06-09 06:05 AM

A sticky-orange heat hung over the town;
heavy, claustrophobic, airless density.
A heat laden with tiny, weightless insects,
caught in a hot film of cloying intensity.
A distorting haze rose off melting tarmac
into suspended traffic fumes -- a psychedelic trip.
A blend of food aromas wafted up from open stalls;
a perfume of spoiled fruit, doughnuts, and traffic.

Dishevelled shoppers beaten into sluggish gaits
trailed overheated, irritable children and heavy loads.
Shiny, unmopped faces peered out from slowing cars,
waiting -- trapped expressions -- on traffic-clogged roads.
A quiet, almost siesta mood reigned in the noon hour,
market traders lolled, disinterested, in old deckchairs.
A line of people queue'd, restlessly for Ice-cream,
Cool thirst for quenching ice's, kept them rooted there.

Relentless heat beat down a submissive race,
hot pavement burned their soles and heels.
The sun scorched flesh on unscreened faces;
while a cat lay cooling in the shade of car wheels.

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

1 posted 2004-06-09 10:08 AM

This is a vivid picture of unbearable heat. Well done. Love, Joyce

Beasley
Senior Member

since 2003-11-28

Posts 682
Cheboygan,MI USA

2 posted 2004-06-09 12:28 PM

This is really intense. I can just feel the heat. Nice poem.
Love, Barb

Trillium

Member Patricius

since 2001-03-09

Posts 12098
Idaho, USA

3 posted 2004-06-10 05:35 PM

Dear June: I enjoyed the poem! I wish we had a little of that heat here, right now!

Love
Betty Lou

Betty Lou Hebert

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

4 posted 2004-06-12 03:42 AM

Sounds like Mexico, to me....great descritive poem....you took me there.

junemac
Senior Member

since 2003-04-24

Posts 1005
uk

5 posted 2004-06-12 12:43 PM

Thank you all for your lovely replies. It is so nice to be back here and posting.
Big hugs from the U.K

June x

PatAngel
Member

since 2004-04-05

Posts 451
California

6 posted 2004-06-27 12:41 PM

June,

The heat reminds me of Yucatan, Mexico. I was there for two weeks in March. You described the intense heat so vividly. Great poem!

Patricia

'When you find a dream within your heart, don't ever let it go.
For dreams are the tiny seeds from which tomorrow grows.'

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