"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."
Eckhart Tolle

Thursday, August 19, 2010

summertime big tent poetry #16 wordle


Summer zeroes in a stream

Cars baked from heat

A dry plant in a pineapple forest

Silk hose to surround . . . moisten

Glass blown pots . . . now deep

40 comments:

  1. Pamela, I can FEEL the hot summer in your poem! Wiping the sweat from my brow!

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  2. Nicely done, Pamela! Short, and image rich. Love it.
    ~Brenda

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  3. Ah, those were the days: silk stockings - I was forever darning them!

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  4. Short and hot! Nice play with the words...

    - Dina

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  5. It certainly is hot this summer (hotter than the past summers it seems). Wonderful post!

    -Weasel

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  6. Beautifully done, Pamela. My fav line is... 'Silk hose to surround... moisten'. Delightful!

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  7. Brief, yet each line holds at least one or more images. Great take on the prompt,

    Elizabeth

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  8. Just like summer, it was all over too quickly.

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  9. Can't get much more boiled down than this, and yet it makes a fine sense.

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  10. a hot short one Pam....packed with kewl punch....have a great weekend

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  11. Mary these words did invoke summertime for me
    Pamela

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  12. Brenda thanks for the nice comment.
    Pam

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  13. Viv I remember them too, always thought they were lovely.
    Pamela

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  14. Dina thanks it is all about play!
    Pamela

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  15. Isn't though Stan, thanks!
    Pamela

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  16. Thanks Wayne and you do the same!
    Pam

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  17. Very intriguing take on this prompt.

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  18. Thanks Deb I definitely sensed summer.
    Pamela

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  19. I like the effect here - pineapple forests, silk hose moistening, and glass blown pots. Nice!

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  20. You were able to convey so much of the relentless, endless, blistering heat of summer in so few words, BRAVO!

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  21. Thanks Cynthia and from what I understand it has been brutal this year!

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