tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post5338748713029963412..comments2024-03-29T09:35:43.086-04:00Comments on The Miss Rumphius Effect: Monday Poetry Stretch - Some Like It HotTriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18350907653629775293noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-68843060442041539632010-06-11T09:21:26.524-04:002010-06-11T09:21:26.524-04:00My contribution is here: http://deowriter.wordpres...My contribution is here: http://deowriter.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/poetry-friday-heat/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-50131640437548516532010-06-08T23:22:48.342-04:002010-06-08T23:22:48.342-04:00Air-Condition
by Liz Korba
It's hot.
I'm ...Air-Condition<br />by Liz Korba<br /><br />It's hot.<br />I'm not.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18293368769378439196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-29538402732064564152010-06-08T21:05:37.272-04:002010-06-08T21:05:37.272-04:00afternoon heat...
gray cat flops on her side
to s...afternoon heat... <br />gray cat flops on her side<br />to stretch long<br />against the cool wood floor<br />still and silent as a shadowDiane Mayrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09767689319000732296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-37373579260731164272010-06-08T13:52:34.639-04:002010-06-08T13:52:34.639-04:00Pepper
It was such a cute pepper
the size of my t...Pepper<br /><br />It was such a cute pepper<br />the size of my thumb.<br />I bit off the tip<br />and I felt pretty dumb<br />for though it was little<br />that pepper was strong.<br />I thought it was sweet.<br />It was hot.<br />I was wrong.<br /><br />© Amy Ludwig VanDerwater<br />(The Poem Farm)Amy L Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03830987204619914326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-62928832962348476312010-06-07T16:55:21.850-04:002010-06-07T16:55:21.850-04:00VANISHING ACT
By Steven Withrow
Nine years old, b...<b>VANISHING ACT<br />By Steven Withrow</b><br /><br />Nine years old, bored with summer,<br />sick of sunburn, watermelon,<br />almost wishing for September,<br />I follow my patient father<br />through hanging vines,<br />chain-linked swings<br />of our equatorial jungle gym,<br />where earth turns daily<br />and vegetables grow.<br />I plunk myself down<br />between red radish rows,<br />Steven Withrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08424518148189688086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-54384426286288658832010-06-07T16:54:05.228-04:002010-06-07T16:54:05.228-04:00Today has a fever,
but the ocean puts cool fingers...Today has a fever,<br />but the ocean puts cool fingers<br />across its hot forehead<br />and says, "Shhhh.<br />Soon it will be night."<br /><br />--Kate Coombs, 2010, all rights reservedKate Coombshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10138566291199003171noreply@blogger.com