Our theme was "heat", it being summer. I found it really hard to think of anything worth repeating on the subject, because, who can chatter when it's so darn hot? I was thinking about the sharp contrast between the chill of my work environment and the blast of humidity at lunch hour, when I scribbled my first attempt:
Walk out the door you’re slammed with heat;
work’s icebox chill dissolves in mist.
An office job just can’t be beat.
Walk out the door, you’re slammed with heat.
Return from lunch, the breeze you meet;
with icy blast your brow is kissed.
Walk out the door, you’re slammed with heat -
The icebox chill dissolves in mist.
I wasn't too happy with it, as it seems so trivial! I tried again, after re-reading Rumi's lovely
poem "Story Water", where he points out the great blessing of hot water in these lines:
poem "Story Water", where he points out the great blessing of hot water in these lines:
A story is like water
That you heat for your bath.
It takes messages between the fire and your skin. It lets them meet,
and it cleans you!
Read the rest of that poem here.
My second triolet for this month:
Water blesses - hot or frozen,
ice in drinks and steam in showers.
Rumi’s story waters rose in
blessed water, hot or frozen.
Icy drinks can clink the hours,
Summer downpours end in flowers.
Water blesses hot or frozen,
ice in drinks and steam in showers.
-Andromeda Jazmon
-Andromeda Jazmon
I need to work on it a bit more, but it's getting somewhere I think.
Check out the lovely poems my poetry sisters have posted today:
And enjoy the Friday Poetry round-up hosted by Trisha!
