Extreme Heat Wave: 10 Weather Inspired Short Poems for a Very Hot Weekend
They say that aspiring poets should write what they know. If there’s anything I know, it’s that this recent heat wave is an event unlike any I’ve ever seen.
In honor of the record-breaking temperatures, I thought I’d write 10 Haikus about the weather. Because let’s get real: it’s too hot to read a longer poem.
1)
From bath salt zombies
To cataclysmic heat waves:
Apocalypse now?
2)
Burn greenhouse gases
And I guess we all burn too.
We should have listened.
3)
Look so happy in water.
I'm getting ice cream!
4)
This was caused by a
“heat dome,” or Upper-
Level High Pressure system.
5)
Whatever you say, House Stark.
(Game of Thrones reference).
6)
Records broken in 5 days.
3,000 in June.
7)
So the 1%
Can chill on floating islands?
Occupy Ocean.
8)
“Have you read 50
Shades of Grey? It’s so—“ “Hey! Did
Somebody say shade?”
9)
Seriously though.
How can it possibly be
So freaking hot out?
10)
USA Today
Writes: temps will drop by Sunday.
Only one more day!