Sizzling Sol
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The sun beats me down
Like hammer to nail
Baking dry my life
Turning red the pale
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This giver of life
Now burns it away
Oh, the love of night
On hottest of days
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It may be my fault
Something I have done
That causes this fire
Scorching of the sun
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The causal effect
Felt in the sun’s rays
Has me wishing for
The wintery days
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We cannot exist
Without your life light
But why do you burn
So God awful bright
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Please take a day off
From relentless heat
A cool northern wind
Would taste very sweet
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If you continue
To blaze as you do
I may well begin
To start hating you
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“The grass is always greener…” If we have a cold and harsh winter, we’ll be wishing for a day or two when the sun bakes us!
Agreed!
Well written Brad. The sun while being the source of our existence is also harsher during got summers and your poetry taps into those expressions. However, I think for us anything too much is always hard to sustain. Lucky we are inhabitants of the earth, if we were on Mercury or Venus, we would be like burning aliens.
Too much of anything is bad news. Thanks V!
Welcome Brad🙂
Just take it down a notch! Fun poem and so true –
Thanks Beth! Maybe two notches.
Autumn is coming, dear Brad. I’m ready to bundle up in sweaters, but I’m not quite ready for old man Winter.
I do love autumn! And where you live it must be beautiful in fall! Thanks for reading. Hope you are both well!
It is beautiful here in the fall. I’ll share pictures when the leaves are at their peak. They just started turning.
Looking forward to the weather and your photos!
Amen to that
Thanks beautiful!
Awwww he called me beautiful! *swoon*
hate the sun – never! 🙂
fun poem…
Thanks, Jim! Hate may be too strong a word. Let’s say a building dislike!
I’m already looking forward to when the hot days of summer return… 🙂
That is what I call getting ahead of the curve, Mr. Q!
and perhaps someday I’ll live somewhere where it is an endless summer… 🙂
While not in our immediate region, we’ve been getting nothing but smoke for five days in California due to the wildfires. Today was the first day during all of that time that I caught a glimpse of the sun trying to shine through the smoky haze.
I can’t even imagine. Just stay safe, my friend!
Definitely felt days like that! Praying for winter, yet after a few months below zero I long for the sunshine and the hot days of summer! I am a summer person anyways, having been born in the summer and in the summertime I’ve had my best and most memorable times…Great work my friend!
Not hating on summer, my friend, just temperatures over 38 degrees. My non-metric American readers won’t get that….😁
Yes that’s true, me too, I love summer but some days the heat really gets to me. 😊
Good
Thank you, Aradhana!
Very good