TheBanyanTree: Indian Ocean Summer

[Jim Miller]

Woofie,

Wonderful visual. I'm there in the window with you.

Jim

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Woofess <Woofess at iinet.net.au> wrote:

>
>          Summer... that is wot is on me mind at the moment! I hate
>          summer in Wozland! City and surburban idjits here love it, cuz
>          they have no comprehension that heat and no rain means
>          everything dries up and we are short of water for drinking.
>          That's because they are cocooned in their ignorant city
>          shells, where they think that incubating melanoma by squatting
>          in the Indian Ocean is the pinnacle of living.
>
>          Give me powdery snow and glittery icicles any day!
>
>          Anyhows, today has been particularly crappy for various
>          reasons, so I was distracting meself by looking at old files
>          stored on me drives here and found this pome I writ when I
>          still had a few synapses... hmmm.. where did all them synapses go?
>
>          (Indian) Summer Irony
>          --------------------
>
>          Air con
>          Thataps a busy jig,
>          Self-important
>          In its noisy bombast
>          The alien sound
>          In this still,
>          Ancient, harsh
>          And unforgiving land.
>
>          Flowers,
>          Heads bowed
>          In abject worship
>          Of the God-Sun.
>          Lips parched,
>          Tongues hanging out,
>          Begging water,
>          In limp defeat.
>
>          Blue gum
>          Arrays herself
>          In dangling
>          Question marks,
>          That twirl languidly
>          In the silently,
>          Thrumming,
>          Blister-hot air.
>
>          Splendid Blue Wrens
>          Huddle amongst
>          The scanty ascii
>          Of Blue Gum's vest,
>          Not daring to speak.
>          Begging asylum
>           From the God-Sun's
>          Far-seeking probes.
>
>          Bare ground
>          Brazenly,
>          Shed of its habit,
>          Shimmer-dances wildly.
>          White tongues waving
>          To lick the unwary
>          Feet with poker darts
>          Of hot ice pain.
>
>          Prostrate hounds
>          Share shade
>          With lifeless cats
>          Patiently awaiting
>          The end to stillness
>          By a zephyr
>          Or the God-sun's
>          Daily ministrations.
>
>          Rushing meat ants,
>          Groomed and glossy,
>          Defy the God-Sun.
>          Pause not to pray,
>          But hurry faster
>           From here to there,
>          Oblivious to God-Sun's
>          Omnipotent rays.
>
>          And I?
>          Sit by the window,
>          Smiling inwardly,
>          As I look
>          Into my glass
>          And see
>          Only the glacier,
>          Waiting within.
>
>          Woof, hunting for more ice in the fridge...
>
> --
>
> Best regards,
>
> Woofie
>
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