Summer Heat
How I feel about heat & humidity.15 total reviews
Comment from LisaMay
You certainly are suffering! I enjoyed your imagery, likening yourself to a slack dish rag and sloppy apple sauce. I am uncertain about using 'limpid' to describe your flesh. Is it really clear and transparent? Maybe pallid is a better word? (pale, lacking vigour or intensity; insipid)
reply by the author on 25-Aug-2021
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You certainly are suffering! I enjoyed your imagery, likening yourself to a slack dish rag and sloppy apple sauce. I am uncertain about using 'limpid' to describe your flesh. Is it really clear and transparent? Maybe pallid is a better word? (pale, lacking vigour or intensity; insipid)
Comment Written 25-Aug-2021
reply by the author on 25-Aug-2021
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Thank you very much, Lisa, for your perceptive review. I am delighted you enjoyed the imagery. Indeed ?limpid? is not the same as ?limp.? I believe LANGUID is the word I want.
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I've only heard 'limpid' used when referring to something like: 'her eyes looked like limpid pools'.
Languid is perfect (showing a disinclination for physical exertion or effort).
Comment from Janice Canerdy
Actually, sapped of energy or not, you have penned an excellent poem--skillfully and creatively composed and vividly descriptive. The poem really resonates with me--well, with people who can't avoid the heat. In Mississippi, the highs are in the nineties, with heat indices 105 and up!
reply by the author on 25-Aug-2021
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Actually, sapped of energy or not, you have penned an excellent poem--skillfully and creatively composed and vividly descriptive. The poem really resonates with me--well, with people who can't avoid the heat. In Mississippi, the highs are in the nineties, with heat indices 105 and up!
Comment Written 25-Aug-2021
reply by the author on 25-Aug-2021
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Thank you very much, Janice, for your high praise of SUMMER HEAT. I can commiserate with you people in the South.
Comment from Sally Law
A perfect entry for the sapping heat of summer. This is just how it is in Florida. Sending you my best today as always and my very best for the upcoming contest. Sal XOs
reply by the author on 25-Aug-2021
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A perfect entry for the sapping heat of summer. This is just how it is in Florida. Sending you my best today as always and my very best for the upcoming contest. Sal XOs
Comment Written 25-Aug-2021
reply by the author on 25-Aug-2021
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Thank you very much, Sally, for your endorsement of my contest entry. I do not know how anyone can live in Florida in the summer, but Chicago is not much better these days.
Comment from Susan Newell
I like this one. It does seem as though the heat saps every last bit of energy. Some people seem to tolerate it better than others. I liked the dishrag and other word choices. Great poem.
reply by the author on 25-Aug-2021
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I like this one. It does seem as though the heat saps every last bit of energy. Some people seem to tolerate it better than others. I liked the dishrag and other word choices. Great poem.
Comment Written 25-Aug-2021
reply by the author on 25-Aug-2021
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Thank you very much, Susan, for your praise of SUMMER HEAT. I am so pleased you like it.
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You are welcome. I am a sweltering mindless blob, myself. . . . and I'm going to have to deal with supper again! No decent takeout near and you can eat only so much of cold cuts and deli potato salad. :-)
Comment from Anne Johnston
Very well done. We are in a heat wave here and I watched some men working on building new steps to our building and marveled that they could work all day in that heat. I like the pictures you paint, feeling like a dish rag, what's in your head like applesauce, etc. Very good poem for this feelings contest.
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reply by the author on 25-Aug-2021
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Very well done. We are in a heat wave here and I watched some men working on building new steps to our building and marveled that they could work all day in that heat. I like the pictures you paint, feeling like a dish rag, what's in your head like applesauce, etc. Very good poem for this feelings contest.
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Comment Written 25-Aug-2021
reply by the author on 25-Aug-2021
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Thank you very much, Anne, for your praise of my poem and the pictures I painted.
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You are very welcome
