Monday, May 2, 2016

Summer Harshness Comments

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Sweating and sweltering
under the sun's ferocious gaze
Gasping for air,
life is thirsty for a stream
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Nosheen Irfan
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Bharati Nayak 07 June 2017

The land is bare Its over-baked crust hardened to heartless sterility forbidding any growth of greenery The sun, a fireball No escape from its burning rage. - - - - - - - - The Summer heat is also so painful here, as if Nature is punishing us.

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Daniel Brick 07 June 2017

The sheer power of NATURE can be frightening. For myself it is winter that carries this fearsome power. Summer lasts at best three months and then the climate f-a-l-l-s toward the cold season. But through your poem I can sense what I've experienced - HEAT as that potentially destructive force, before which we are helpless and must submit.

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Edward Kofi Louis 09 May 2016

Under the sun's ferocious gaze! ! Nice work.

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Barry Middleton 03 May 2016

May get even hotter with climate change. Nice image and I like the idea of rage as if the sun is punishing us perhaps for abusing the earth.

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Valsa George 03 May 2016

Is it the same there too! Here the temperature has risen to unprecedented levels! Its over-baked crust hardened to heartless sterility............ All we see is 'heartless sterility'!

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