Writing Prompt - Summertime (Dawn)

Photo by Toby Hamsher, 2011

It's been awhile since 1st Writes has gotten together, so we're doing a summer writing prompt. We'll post them this week and maybe next. My turn...

I wrote this remembering back to our youth camping trip at Creation Fest 2012. It was hot, hot, hot that year!


It's Too Hot
by Dawn M. Hamsher

Melting in the humidity 
Sweating even in the shade
I sit under the canopy
Not even able to think
The book lies open in my lap
It might as well hold empty pages
I want to nap, but the tent's too hot
And I can't sleep sitting up

Only two more hours till supper
I should try to read
I pick up the book
I read a sentence
What did I read?
I read it again and again
It's too hot to read
It's too hot to do anything.

Writing Prompt - Summertime (Patti)

It's been awhile since 1st Writes has gotten together, so we're doing a summer writing prompt. We'll post them this week and maybe next. The first one up is from Patti Clugston.

Photo by Patti Clugston, 2013

Summertime

by Patti Clugston

Walking outside makes me imagine what it must feel like in the tropics.

 Chickens are jungle fowl, but the heat is very hard on them.

The hens stand around, beak open, wings propped out from the body. 

They stay in the shade, under the Lilac bush, dug into the dirt.

Dust bathing is a favorite activity. 

They look like they are having a seizure or dying, wings flapping, dust flying, but the dust cools the skin off under the feathers. 

Egg production drops off, it is just too hot. 

I take bowls of ice cubes up to the shady nap spot a few times a day. 

They seem to appreciate it. 

Snickers, my favorite bunny, gets a fan & a large frozen water bottle every day to beat the heat. 

She spreads out beside the coldness & relaxes.

 The ice becomes her best friend.

 I treat her with cold carrot chips & she is a happy bunny.

 Trying to keep everyone cool in the summer heat.

Photo by Patti Clugston, 2013