Daily Haiku #3: Unforgiving Summer
a poem about about summer heat
Trees sway in the breeze
An illusion of cool temps
It’s ninety degrees
Texas weather, am I right? Sometimes we go out for morning walks at 9:30 am and my phone reports the temperature as 85 degrees and the real feel as 95. A breeze is nice, but it can feel like a ruse. The movement in plants and trees makes me feel as though the weather should be cooler, but the benefits of that breeze are not often felt.
This is part of a daily haiku project I started in 2020.
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© Katie Rodante 2020
Katie Rodante is a writer living in sunny Dallas, Texas with her loving husband, two wild young children, and a lazy maltese. While she began her career as a paralegal, she found her passion is in creative fiction. Her works include a poetry book of Halloween haiku titled Autumn Reveries, several short stories, and two in-progress novels: a women’s fiction novel about love and loss, and a fantasy series involving wizards and music.
