If only...


Mid-week Heat-wave


Startled blinds are
pulled down defensively
and curtains,
in an uncharacteristic
daytime rendezvous,
undulate sporadically
in yearned for zephyrs,
beyond gaping panes,
striving in vain to
climb out of their frames.

All around
a suffusing silence
and stillness hovers,
agitated by an unseen multitude
of twittering sparrows,
ensconced in leafy trees,
whose ceaseless chirrups
seem strangely exotic today.

Thirsty children,
confined
liked hutched rabbits,
subdued in stuffy classrooms,
long to blast balls
through the shattering calm;
while a weary workforce
struggles on
through the staggering heat,
wistfully clock watching...

only to be greeted by
thunderstorms and monsoons
at 5.30





Poetry by loualoui
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Written on 2005-08-05 at 19:13

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Commentally Ill
a cheerful warming piece that brought images of home-cooked meals and wholesome family entertainment to mind.
2005-08-07


Claire
Hot, boiling days are always so hard in schools - the kids get all wiggly and can't focus. The classroom I worked in had huge, huge windows all round it, which the children had to try really hard not to stare desperately out of - the size of those windows wound them up I think, massive green playing fields, massive blue skies but you can't have them - the first week of your school holidays will invariably be dreadful rainy gloom but no you can't play out now, sorry, you have to learn about bloody adjectives children, you can't be out now.

Great poem, it really conveys how oppressive it feels to be cooped up indoors when it's so lovely outside.
2005-08-05


chasingtheday The PoetBay support member heart!
apparently there is a heatwave in france at the moment and the rest of europe, yet here, as ever the sky spits grey clouds at us. god imagery here though, i want to go and sunbathe now, what do you mean what with that body, cheeky :D
2005-08-05