TheBanyanTree: Indian Ocean Summer

[Teague, Julie Anna]

Lovely and evocative of the heat of summer, which I am in no rush to 
get back to!!

Quoting Woofess <Woofess at iinet.net.au>:

> 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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>
>
> --
>
> Best regards,
>
> Woofie
>
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>
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