Sunday afteroon is pouring hot sauce
over the charred skin of grilled chicken
sky is tender blue, rolling fluffy doughs of clouds
with hint of playful rain, at bay
i love this season of wilting blooms and and cantalouped-
cheeked sun, wrinkling my face
Posted for dVerse Poets Pub, Quadrille hosted by Kim M. Russell. This prompt is a 44 word post, with the chosen word, BLUE. Join us as we reopen the pub community after a summer break. Thank you for your visits and comments.
Happy 8th year Anniversary dVerse Poets Pub!!!
Oh Grace, this is such a happy, relaxed quadrille! I love watermelon and, although I’m a veggie, the image of Sunday afternoon ‘pouring hot sauce / over the charred skin of grilled chicken’ is so evocative of a summer barbecue. I love the phrase ‘cantalouped-cheeked sun’ – I imagine in as one of those illustrations you see in children’s books!
ReplyDeleteThis is so full of joy Grace and I can almost taste that chicken!
ReplyDeleteA lovely scene and oh those roses!
ReplyDeleteOh....wish you were sitting here you would have heard a loud audible "ohhhhhhh" come out from me. This is FABULOUS! And those cantaloped cheeked sun.....delicious to visualize and taste too! :) JUST a wonderful summer poem.
ReplyDeleteI like your observation of the sun wrinkling the face. It adds a bit of unease to the easy-going sweetness of the poem.
ReplyDelete"cantalouped-cheeked sun," is such a stunning image, Grace! Happy eighth dVerse anniversary!💝
ReplyDeleteAn iconic summer day, brilliantly evoked!
ReplyDeleteI love this piece. Very evocative with the "rolling fluffy doughs of clouds." You nailed this prompt! Well done!
ReplyDeleteThe sun and its cantaloupe skin cheeks ~ love the visual and your poem.
ReplyDeleteYesterday I thought of taking a picture of the clouds in the sky, but didn't do it. If I had, I might have written something peaceful like this to go with it. I like that your sky is "tender blue." Lovely image.
ReplyDeleteEnjoying the summer sun, lovely evocative images, appealing to all the senses
ReplyDeleteHappy Monday
Much💙love
Solid work. Esp loved the doughs.
ReplyDeleteSo very lovely!
ReplyDeleteI love this season you create and share here. I can smell the chicken, feel into the tenderness of the sky rolling those white doughy clouds. Gorgeous imagery!
ReplyDeleteSumer is a great time to bar b que! Both chicken and people at the pool!! Great summer poem Grace!
ReplyDeleteLovely piece, all the senses working overtime - 'the cantaloupe-cheeked sun' is a great image - took me a moment to grasp it. Delicious.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good summer day.
ReplyDeleteThanks for inviting us all to the picnic. Love the cantalope-cheeked sun!!
ReplyDeleteI love everything about this. Brought smiles!
ReplyDeleteWhat lovely imagery! (as always)
ReplyDeleteThis is vivid: "cantalouped- / cheeked sun"
ReplyDeleteWatermelon Blues Perhaps
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HaD A T-Bone
Steak Down
HeaR in Trump
Town USA They are
Still Less than 4 Dollars
A Pound Desert Scarcity Ignorance
With Heaven True
Even With
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Man And or
Woman WayS iN
Blind Soul Blues
Fast Becoming Epic
World Capital of Dumbing Down Disease
Such lovely, palpable images! I can imagine being there with you on a lazy summer day.
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