Remembering winter
Keeps me cool, as the
Summer sun beats down
Syllabic Verse
These last few days have really been hot here in my area, 100 degree days. It’s pretty hot but I am not complaining because I remember how long it took for our weather to warm up and how many chilly days we had to endure waiting for this summer weather.
So I am just doing my best to stay fairly cool and enjoy it while it lasts because summer will be gone before long!
Summer’s been sleeping,
Wasting her alotted days
Procrastinating.
Weather man keeps promising
Tomorrow for sure
We’ll see her warm sunny smile,
Yet so far it seems
She keeps on hibernating.
Will tomorrow ever come?
Choka
Heat wave crashes
High Atmospheric air meets
August sun rising
Haiku
Summer!
Outside
Thermometer
Rises and rises,
As the sun climbs high.
News reports say “heat wave!”
Animals and birds seek shade.
The wind vanishes at midday.
Humanity travels to the beaches.
Memories will warm a cold winter day
Etheree
On the calendar,
The shortest day of the year.
December twenty first,
The first day that winter begins.
Sun shines, temp warm, work day long!
Tanka
Leona J. Atkinson 12-21-13
Everyone was complaining,
“When is summer going to come?”
The 65 degree weather
Was really not summer for some.
“Where is our sunshine ?
We want hot sunny days.
We are tired of the cool,
And the rain, how it stays!”
So today summer came
In a rushing wave of heat!
The temperature is 100,
And everywhere the sun does beat.
Now no one is saying “Yay!
Summer finally did arrive!”
No. All I hear is “Turn on the AC
To 65 degrees, so I can survive!”
Farewell June, on your final day you
are surely giving us a day to remember you for!
06-30-13
Leona J. Atkinson
Leonas Lines--Poetry Plus 