#NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 10

Backyard thermometer reading April 10, 2014

Triple digit temps
Desert low humidity
Means it’s a dry heat

Haboob intense wind
Creates sandstorm in desert
Word makes people cringe

NaPoWriMo Prompt Day 10 – Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that starts from a regional phrase, particularly one to describe a weather phenomenon. You may remember one from growing up, bu if you’re having trouble getting started, perhaps one of these regional U.S. phrases used to describe warm weather will inspire you. Or you might enjoy these French terms for cold weather, or even these expressions from the British Islesthat are mostly for the very British phenomenon of rain.

Good Morning and welcome to day 10 of NaPoWriMo where as a desert rat, I get to poke fun at the term, dry heat. The above photo turned up in my Facebook memories today; five years later and we are expecting a beautiful high of only 77 today. Also living in the desert, I have also experienced haboobs which was the first word I thought of to describe a local weather phenomenon; we’ve lived here for 20 years now and the word still makes me laugh. The #haikuchallenge word is original today and I was semisuccessful at making it work.

Haboob funny word
Original use depicts
Sandstorm in desert.

Here is another #haikuchallenge post I wrote for monsoon season and how destructive haboobs can be. And no autocorrect I am not trying to spell baboon. Well it is early release today, Gretchen will be out of school in an hour and it’s my first day of grading so I must be off. I hope everyone enjoys the one third mark of April insanity.

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#HaikuChallenge Monsoon

Palo Verde in Frontyard 

Destructive monsoon
Creates hurricane force winds
Treetop tips over

I posted how the haboob Monday night took the top off our tree in the front. Because the bottom branches are thick, the tree caught itself. Probably a good thing, as it tipped towards the driveway and may have landed on top of Rachael’s car if the bottom branches weren’t there. Well Tuesday Rachael was off from work, so we went out to do back to school shopping; and wow there was a lot of storm damage to clean up. I called a tree company on Wednesday; they could not picture how the tree could catch itself. I told them there is no rush. The tree isn’t blocking the road and there is no other damage. Thursday morning they came out to look at it. Unfortunately they are very busy and can’t get to it for awhile plus Shawn did not like the price. So the top of the tree is still dangling from the top.

Then last night the West Valley was hit with another intense monsoon storm. An entire house out near Buckeye was destroyed. When I noticed the wind picking up, I told Rachael to move the car out of the driveway. The above picture was taken today, so the storm last night did not create any more damage to the tree. Hopefully Shawn can get it trimmed up tomorrow. The #haikuchallenge word today is tip. I knew this would be a perfect photo to go with my haiku. Monsoon season really likes to show off in August. This was the same palo verde tree last year (the photo on right; wall was in neighborhood but not our property).

Colleen’s #Poetry Challenge 95

Summer break ends soon
Mom glad to have empty house
But children grow glum

Good Evening! It’s the last day of July and officially one week until school is back in session. Since Rachael was off today, we did our back to school shopping and then headed over to P.F.Chang’s for take out – Mom had a coupon.

Here is the link to Colleen’s #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge the two words, synonyms only – Happy & Morose. Slowly but surely I’m getting back to writing poetry again. Summer break has been a killer; haven’t kept up well with the poet blog revival in June or July. I love school because my house is quiet all day.

Back in May, I posted Shawn was having a solo show at Alwun House at the end of August. Well last night, Phoenix was hit with a big monsoon storm; we’re going to need to get a tree trimmer over to take care of one of our trees. Alwun House also suffered quite a bit of damage, so the show had to be canceled. 😦 I’ll keep my readers posted when it gets rescheduled.

Upside Down Poem

Iridescent pink

Wet concrete reflects streetlamp

Upside down sunset

This is a photo I took of yesterday’s sunset turned upside down for Writer’s Digest Wednesday Poetry Prompt. I love rain. My copies of the Half New Year anthology came yesterday, too. It was a happy day for me.

Half New Year – amazon