Summer In My Brain

Summer like an eagle has swooped down Under its tearing claws, the Earth shrieks and groans The days and nights breathe out the stench of dribbling sweat Roads rage and roofs steam like an overly heated pan The midday Sun flares right overhead Spitting fumes and fire all around The Earth lies scorched under its burning breath An oven pre heated, hot enough to grill and bake Rivers and streams pant in wild unrest Canals and cisterns lie distraught Dry leaves in whirlwind swirl around The fallowed lands yawn with mouths wide agape From the woods, rise coils of sooty smoke As the dried undergrowth burns in the forest fire Sucking the last vestiges of grass and green The flames of fire dance in wild ecstasy Alas! The self same summer has barged into me Burning outright all my unsung songs In my ears echo the rustle of dried up thoughts Which waggle round me like disembodied spirits How I lament the loss of my lovely rhymes As the ink in my pen also is drying up Oh! I wish it were moistened by the waters of *Helicon And like a stream, trickle down into the paper I hold!