Best Swelter Poems

Moving through the day
In a blister of heat,
Sparks seem to spray
And bounce off the street.

Shadows are twice as black!
The windows sparkle gold.
The earth seems about to crack--
Frightening to behold!

Backed against a wall,
Moving along its side,
I give a desperate call;
There's nowhere to hide,

"Help!"  I cry.
"Who...

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Walking in the rain


I am going out
in the gentle summer rain
remnants of a storm
to feel the drenched cotton fabric
of this threadbare shirt cling onto me like a sheath
smell the parched earth suck in the season’s first rain
Please come with me

We will paddle about, cautiously though
not...

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Changing of Seasons
David J Walker
 
It wasn’t that I wanted my world 
To be frozen 
It’s just that the season chosen 
Naturally will not be like today
Not the sweltering hot heat
That turns the asphalt street into a
Fakers pit of bubbling fire that tourists
Admire and pay...

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