Summer Winds: Relief in the Night
Hot winds come in from the
west
Smokey haze across the sky
Obscuring the hills from
view
Smoke stings torchering the
eye
Heat beating down from the
sun
Rippling up from the ground
Pressing, thickening the air
Heat coming from all around
The sun is now high over
Passing in its long slow arc
Billowing smoke in the south
Starting with only one spark
Black shadows start from
nothing
Longer they begin to grow
Creeping along the dry ground
All movement seeming so slow
Will the heat ever decrease?
How long shall its presence
stay?
Will it depart for the night
but to return the next day?
Wait
Is that the east wind stirring?
I shall ask for it to be
For the east wind brings
coolness
Coolness drawn out of the
sea
It brings up clouds from the
east
To cover the sinking sun
It whispers amongst the
trees
Just before the day is done
Along with it comes a smell
That sends all the frogs to
sing
The hope and expectation
Of rain, that wondrous thing
The heat is gone for a time
For a while we are all-right
It is just that bit cooler
We have relief in the night
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| The moon is red from all the smoke in the air. Red is the colour that gets past the smoke and reflects back from the moon. |
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Beautiful poem. I shared it on google+
ReplyDeleteGood bless.