Heatwaves, Struggles, and Memories in Poetry.

Heatwaves, Stuggles, and Memories in Poetry.

Summer heat

Heatwave

A heatwave

of circumstance,

trial and trouble

presses around me,

threatens to 

overwhelm.

Intensifying heat

absorbs all joy.

I grumble,

discontented,

thirsty,

drained.

Then:

I remember You:

The living water,

refreshing, cool,

and sweet:

I am flooded

with Your peace:

Eternal life is mine

and all is well.

Pauses are so needful. 

Pause

Things went all

wrong today:

forgot to pause,

forgot  to pray.

Now, I stop to 

pause and pray,

and cling to Jesus

as I travel my way

Warm day 

Refreshment

I miss my 

mother's kindness

on days like this:

Days of 

unmerciful 

scorching heat.

Those cups of Earl Gray tea

beside the  airconditioner.

May I too refresh

others walking

on life's trying, hot and

dusty way.

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Copyright: Alison Lawrence

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