Heat

There are many different reasons to be hot, not just the sort I am experiencing today with a temperature of 33 degrees centigrade. Tossing around in bed last night and wondering if I should be kept awake by the traffic noise instead, I had the germ of an idea for a poem on this very subject. Hope you enjoy it!

A parched palm tree in my garden

HEAT

I’m hiding from the heat

Of political debate

Another leader standing down,

Does he deserve the hate?

I’m managing the heat

With a toddler’s paddling pool

A tumbler full of melted ice

In shade that isn’t cool

They’re working in the heat

But the fishing lake is dry

The field for vegetables is parched

Birds drop down from the sky

There’ll be more days of heat

Till all leaders act as one

Put our planet at the forefront

And save us from the sun