Poetry Friday: A Triolet for the Heat

Triolets began as devotionals.  So for July's poetry challenge, I looked to my prayers (and to heat, as Liz suggested) for my inspiration.

Please don't summon the demon

Oh, mercy, I prayed for these days—

Summer-long, blood-hot, even in shade;

When winter leeched me to pale beige,

Oh, mercy! I prayed for these days:

For gnats, for sweat, for turned mayonnaise,

For blighted tomatoes, burned legs, soured lemonade.

Oh, mercy. I prayed for these days.

Summer-long, blood-hot, even in shade...

----Sara Lewis Holmes (all rights reserved)

More heated triolets can be found here:




Liz
Tanita
Tricia
Kelly
Laura
Rebecca
Andi







Poetry Friday is hosted today by our own Tricia at The Miss Rumphius Effect.