Hay lies waiting
beneath the sun beating
and an oriole is fluting
his endless questions
that have no answer
bees swarm loud
in the hot silence
heavy as honey
sweet as syrup
and the brazen blue throbs
with a brazen beat
cicada hiss sssss
among limp leaves
while water runs slower
dying and drying as its bed shrinks
spring is life in movement
floods and rising green shoots
now we hold hot breath
thinking of the crisping of leaves
and the first cold shadows.
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I can feel the heat 💜
36°C today and the storms come back tomorrow.
Omg it’s been the hottest day of the year here is 27° and it’s 8.26pm !
Is it going to get hotter today? We have storms coming up from the south pushing the heat northwards.
It’s been 35 ° today very hot for us 💜
That’s hot for anyone 🙂
Yes indeed it is 💜💜
We were supposed to get fierce winds and hail storms this afternoon. Sky’s still cloudless and not a breath of wind yet the meteo says it’s been storming for the last 35 minutes.
Just shows what they know, perhaps you are in a little bubble 😀
Usually the storms miss us. The last string of them we had a couple of weeks ago took us by surprise. they’d been forecasting storms regularly since the end of the winter and we hadn’t had one.
Hopefully you have escaped again then 💜
Not so sure now. The air is getting heavier and seems even hotter than yesterday.
It certainly is here , hotter than yesterday 💜💜💜
😦
A sensory delight! But I’m not ready to think of crisp leave and cold. 😀
No, me neither. The house is cool enough to remind me of what’s coming though.
So true…spring moves forward and summer pauses. But I’m not looking for the autumn yet either. (K)
It’s a cycle, keeps turning. We pretend it goes in stops and starts, but it doesn’t.
“hot silence” – perfect description of summer on farms
“now we hold hot breath” perfectly said of summer feelings/attitude – and nice repetition to reinforce imagery and mood
Well done
Thank you! It’s unsettling the way the seasons change without warning. I miss spring…
spring is life in movement
I’m imagining having this verse read out loud while others perform the actions. I think it would be lively, humorous, serious, and meaningful–a living way to attend to what’s happening outside.
Funny, it’s hot and stormy here. Seems too early for all this.
Life is a serious business but it has its humorous moments, sometimes inadvertently. I can’t help but think that squirrels are quite conscious of the spectacle they make of themselves when they swing on branches, doing somersaults and spinning round and round.
It’s been very hot too, and the promised storm is trying to decide if it will or won’t.