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the heat and humidity
the day oppressed by the sun
the night sky is overcrowded
the pitted moon superfluous
i’d rather be cool
a blue lotus, floating
on a shimmering pond
a soulful thing,
solitary by day, and
in the cool night
eyes relieved of
the unremitting sun
© 2015, poem and photograph, Jamie Dedes, All right reserved
Jamie Dedes' THE POET BY DAY Webzine 
Cool, blue lotus…….beautiful spirit. The pond……perhaps the tea house in SF Golden Gate Park?
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Good guess, but this is a tea garden in Central Park, San Mateo, CA.
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I’D RATHER BE COOL
“Ah, what we’d rather be”
But don’t let us go there
We’ve been here a long time
And we know where that leads
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Oh how you have captured how I have felt the last week or two here.
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