August
August is a spendthrift
with Summer’s heat
Hot sauna nights
Long slow-paddle days
Squandering molten rays
on Mother Earth
Sun-drizzling lanqushing flowers
Bankrupting the currency
of Great Oak’s shade
Melting Patient’s coin
with unrelenting passion
August, meet September
Learn thrift from a cooler head
Wilma Gundy
(I suggest reading the poem aloud, listening to the “s”es and “z”es to get the effect of heat and steaming.)
You never cease to amaze me! That is a wonderful poem and it sums up how I am feeling right now in our heat!!