TheBanyanTree: Indian Ocean Summer

[Woofess]

Thanks you two:)
And you can both share some of me classy Bushmills with ice:)
W:)
On 20/12/2012 6:11 PM, Sally Larwood wrote:
> Love it!
>
> Sal
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 20/12/2012, at 7:28, Jim Miller <jim at maze.cc> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>
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>>>
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>>>


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Best regards,

Woofie

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