Summer weather ballyhoo rejoice heat wave, poem by Peter Menkin

<h1>Summer weather ballyhoo rejoice heat wave, poem by Peter Menkin</h1>Author: <a title="Peter Menkin" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/authors/peter-menkin/82261.htm">Peter Menkin</a> This summertime poem, set in a heatwave, speaks of the joy and langour, the happiness of a hot day. Set in Marin County's Corte Madera, north of San Francisco, the work written in 2000 has backward running sentences. Do try out the audio reading to get a better feel for the rhythm of the piece. Humorous in its approach, the poem is comprised of images that set a pastoral picture after Church on a Sunday. What does one do with a hot day, in a heatwave. One thing is visit an ice cream store. There one finds something cold and good, refreshing and pleasant. The surprising respite in the midst of the heatwave, and the festive air of the store and its many customers, including children, adds to a kind of ballyhoo celebration. One poetry critic said of another piece similar to this one, that it had the tone of a revival meeting. This one not so much a revival, but a way of enjoying a hot summer day. That is a revival of kind, is it not? Summer weather ballyhoo rejoice heat wave by Peter Menkin Hot comes the days, to languor and avoid the warm; wait evening after sunset hour of cool; summer sends messages with earlier sunset, darker morning, laze to late wakening and night good with Sunday that special time. Come festive days, wanted weather. Straw hats, suits, shorts, lace gown, khakis; costumed for roller skating go the mother-daughter duo, costumed things grown up growing. And there the grandmother sachet for granddaughter from the ice cream store where flavors abide (many). Do, yes, heat wave people talk, eat ice cream (cones and Sundays) yogurt, while children delight heat wave, hot, warm today. Two Christenings, (three months and four years) twenty years later dialogue of pulpits in one sermon; many rejoinders of September heat wave; coolness desired must. What a good report this weather brings in blazing ballyhoo rejoice.   Audio reading of poem by poet is here: <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/SummerWeatherBallyhooRejoiceHeatWaveByPeterMenkin"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.archive.org/details/SummerWeatherBallyhooRejoiceHeatWaveByPeterMenkin">http://www.archive.org/details/SummerWeatherBallyhooRejoiceHeatWaveByPeterMenkin</a></a>  About the Author: Peter Menkin, an aspiring poet, lives in Mill Valley, CA USA (north of San Francisco).

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This summertime poem, set in a heatwave, speaks of the joy and langour, the happiness of a hot day. Set in Marin County's Corte Madera, north of San Francisco, the work written in 2000 has backward running sentences. Do try out the audio reading to get a better feel for the rhythm of the piece. Humorous in its approach, the poem is comprised of images that set a pastoral picture after Church on a Sunday.

What does one do with a hot day, in a heatwave. One thing is visit an ice cream store. There one finds something cold and good, refreshing and pleasant. The surprising respite in the midst of the heatwave, and the festive air of the store and its many customers, including children, adds to a kind of ballyhoo celebration. One poetry critic said of another piece similar to this one, that it had the tone of a revival meeting. This one not so much a revival, but a way of enjoying a hot summer day. That is a revival of kind, is it not?

Summer weather ballyhoo rejoice heat wave
by Peter Menkin

Hot comes the days,
to languor
and avoid the warm; wait

evening after sunset
hour of cool; summer sends
messages with earlier sunset,

darker morning, laze to late
wakening and night good
with Sunday that special time.

Come festive days, wanted weather.
Straw hats, suits, shorts, lace
gown, khakis; costumed for roller
skating go the mother-daughter duo,

costumed things grown up growing.
And there the grandmother sachet for
granddaughter from the ice cream
store where flavors abide (many).

Do, yes, heat wave people talk,
eat ice cream (cones and Sundays)
yogurt, while children delight

heat wave, hot, warm today.
Two Christenings, (three months and
four years) twenty years later
dialogue of pulpits in one sermon;

many rejoinders of September
heat wave; coolness desired must.
What a good report this weather
brings in blazing ballyhoo rejoice.

Audio reading of poem by poet is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/SummerWeatherBallyhooRejoiceHeatWaveByPeterMenkin

Peter Menkin, an aspiring poet, lives in Mill Valley, CA USA (north of San Francisco). My blog: http://www.petermenkin.blogspot.com

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