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Feel the Heat
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For everyone out there in the heat wave... it's a heat wave here in Texas from March to November


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 Feel the Heat

 
Beating down on the day,
making bricks of malleable clay,
making black goo of hot asphalt,
making excuses for finding fault.
 
Seeping in, in the night,
heat's hot breath, out of sight,
sears with passion, fiery lust,
tongues of ecstasy, gently thrust.
 
Whirlwinds of the heat's wrath,
suck up the cycles in its path,
spin out the seeds of sloth,
into mountains of molten truth.
 
Branded into the hearts of man,
fiery rhythm boils up again,
instilling a distilling taste of fire,
water cannot quench inner desire.
 
Tattooing on a hot tin roof,
ash's pelting would not be enough,
for a skin of that fine true color,
could not out burn the sky's dark pallor.
 
So the truth is broiled into the heart,
burned in deep at the very start,
so when it boils up again to bask,
better had buttered up to the task.
 
For the heat is dimming with each hour,
from the heart of man and of flower,
to bask in the sun of a distant fade,
to have it made before that last spade.
 
Copyright 2013 © Ronald W. Hull
 
6/19/13

 

 

 
Hotter

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 Reviews of "Feel the Heat"
Reviewed by La Belle Rouge Poetess Of The Heart
Reviewed on August 14, 2013
I really enjoyed this "Hot" poem Ron.
Reviewed by Jon Willey
Reviewed on August 13, 2013
Ron, it is the enduring rush to get it all in and have it made "before that last spade". Love that line. May love and peace be always with you my dear friend. Jon Michael
Reviewed by Regis Schilken
Reviewed on July 28, 2013
I enjoyed these two lines:

So the truth is broiled into the heart,
burned in deep at the very start,

I've often wondered why man is able to know TRUTH.
We have reason, we have intelligence, but I wonder
how we come up with the quality of TRUTH.
Reviewed by Amor Sabor
Reviewed on July 25, 2013
You have described the effects of heat upon the mind and body and the desire to escape without burning. You have chosen your words well and I have sweltered in imagining how hot it gets down there Texas way. From California, I thank you for this glimpse...we have out short periods of heat here in the Northern San Joaquin Valley.
Reviewed by Linda Hill
Reviewed on July 24, 2013
Ron,

Hot! Hot! Hot! The humidity is awful here in Virginia. It won't be much longer and I'll be saying I'm too cold!:)

Love and blessings,
Linda+
Reviewed by Axilea MU
Reviewed on July 24, 2013
A poem that speaks to the senses, great vocabulary choice. Then it also speaks to the mind and I can feel the movement of life, the energy, the creativity that need to be exploited before it's too late.

Axilea
Reviewed by Annabel Sheila
Reviewed on July 22, 2013
Wow! Beautifully done, Ronald...this is definitely one to read again and again...

Anna
Reviewed by Vivian Dawson
Reviewed on July 21, 2013
Oblique vanes or sails
that radiate hearts..
calling on the winds

Lady Vivian
Reviewed by William Bonilla
Reviewed on July 21, 2013
an outstanding piece Ron
peace BE WITH YOU

William
Reviewed by Morgan Merriweather
Reviewed on July 21, 2013
We are still in our wave and for us a week of this is a long time, very nice write!
Reviewed by Jane Noponen Perinacci
Reviewed on July 21, 2013
It's just a shame we can't can it up for winter's icy weather!

Love ya!

Jane
Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on July 21, 2013
It seems like the whole world is burning up, these days.
Reviewed by Kate Clifford
Reviewed on July 20, 2013
Great Write.
Reviewed by Amber Moonstone
Reviewed on July 20, 2013
Ron,
I can relate to this poem completely. It was 100 degrees yesterday here in Connecticut! Haven't seen this kind of heat in a very long time.
Love your poem!
Peace love and light,
Amber
Reviewed by Mary Ann Biddinger
Reviewed on July 20, 2013
~Ron~
The tempest heat is smoldering verses well seered.
Good Writing.
Lady Mary Ann
Reviewed by Dark Knight
Reviewed on July 20, 2013
just the other day a woman baked chocolate chip cookies from the inside of her car---like your poem Feel the Heat the weather just beats you down
Reviewed by Joel Sattler
Reviewed on July 20, 2013
Nice!
Reviewed by pat medlin
Reviewed on July 20, 2013
I loved all the artful creative weaving in and about...like a teeny glimpse of your minds workings and then the final personal telling or was it asking exit
Reviewed by Michael True
Reviewed on July 20, 2013
Like chronic pain or opiates the heat digs deep into the psyche of those who swelter. Over time the subtle changes are sure to bubble up to the surface. Well observed. M.True
Reviewed by George Carroll
Reviewed on July 20, 2013
Never been to Texas but I'll take your word for it, in this very descriptive poem.
Reviewed by Odin odin@aflx.com
Reviewed on July 20, 2013
A all-embracing treatise on the pros and cons of heat, allowing its own momentum to bring the reader to the last stanza of faith's inescapable sentry, hope.
Reviewed by Paul Berube
Reviewed on July 20, 2013
Having visited Texas many times, I have to agree with you wholeheartedly , my friend. Excellent descriptive writing.
Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on July 20, 2013
Excellent, even brilliant word assembling, Ron. You reached into the dark of you in order to give truth the trump card in the poem. From the "black goo of hot asphalt," to the last stanza which is nothing short of inspired.
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