Heat

Thunder teases, promised downpour,
does as it pleases, laughs the more,
you hate the heat, it piles it on,
you feel just beat, all pleasure gone.

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Last week

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Sunshine wall to wall day
Mind you stay in the shade day
Choose sun protection factor 30 day
When’s it going to stop day
Thirsty day
Frying under the sun day
Sweaty day
Sunburnt day

Week upon week

Careful what you wish for.
A proper summer? Hot days
with wall-to-wall sunshine?

False memories of winter:
cloudy skies, gun-metal grey,
lashings of rain curtaining down.

Was it always like that?
Or were there blue skies in between?
And now we have week upon week

of parched lawns, diminished rivers, moorland fires and painful sunburn, sleepless nights and short tempers.

Bring back a touch of winter:
promise-crammed clouds of black and grey,
replenishing streams, greening grass,

dampening moorland, cooling skin
and brows. Blessed, blissful rain.

But careful what you wish for.

Doggerel days

So autumn comes to southern climes:
bid farewell now to summer,
the best of times. The worst of times?
When fingers get much number.

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Dog days are the really hot days of summer when Sirius the ‘dog star’ briefly appears before the sun dawns in the northern hemisphere. Doggerel days can be at any other time

This piece of doggerel was inspired by a post on the blog Gert Loveday’s Fun with Books.

disbelief

Summer memories
of simmering heat and sea?
Winter disbelief

Nine word story and senryu rolled into one (image: Broad Haven South, Pembrokeshire)

on the wing

Fledgling swallows in the barn ready to fly the nest

fighter planes saving
our world from midges: not so
deafening, swallows

housemartins mowing
through air, hoovering insects,
tweeting on the wing

zapping up to nests
mud and spittle under eaves
crap on window sills

JUne 16 post re-posted

break

Ducks at rest, fountain, Rhosygilwen, Pembrokeshire

Two months, sixty posts
Miles of micropoetry
Time now for a break

Zenrinji is taking a summer break, back in September
But don’t go away! Explore posts you may have missed
Enjoy the (mostly) original accompanying photographs
Before you know it there’ll be new ones on the list!

then and now

vistas, then and now:
what a difference some months
make to the outlook

window seat

winter blues banished
 warm sun heating window seat
 seasons come and go

meanders

one man went to mow
meanders in the meadow
maze-like wanderings

green

sun-drenched summer swathes
of green fields now parched pale brown
so come welcome rain

midsummer

midsummer madness
bald head browning not quite burnt
must remember hat