Melting in the Summer Sun | August Poetry Event

Poetry Crew would like to challenge YWS to the following:

Write 4 poems with references to the sun, post them on YWS (through lit center)
Review at least 4 poems about the sun
Link both poems and reviews HERE
Complete both (4 poems, 4 reviews), and get a badge! Double it (8 poems, 8 reviews), and get an even shinier badge!

> The person who Reviews the most sun poems (and links them in the forum) gets a super awesome super special badge and 1000 poetry points (must review more than 8 to qualify for entry).

> Every Sun Review also gets you a "Brightest Poem Vote" with which you can vote for your favorite sun poem of the event! (send your votes to alliyah by Aug 30)

Feel free to use one of the text or image prompts HERE, or add your own to this thread!

Let's share the light and joy of poetry before the Summer ends!

> campfires/smoke in the air (fire!)
> sunflowers (floral imagery!)
> warm concrete
> humidity summer storms
> Icarus (getting too close to the sun!)
> celestial orbiting
> solar system
> contrast of the sun + moon
> "we are the last generation to see fireflies" (light pollution)
> solar eclipse
> sun-burnt skin

image prompts:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/15874510543
https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1631663
https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1380687
https://c.pxhere.com/photos/2e/dc/sunse ... 260.jpg!s2





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*Claiming a spot!*

Sun Poem Links

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Sun Poem Reviews

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Old Alliyah Sun Poems

might use for inspo, but also saving here in case any one is looking for an old sun poem to review <.<
> conversing with a locust about the weather on the hottest day of the year
> the facts of orbiting
> boundless
> If the entire sun burned out of the sky (when) would you know?

spot spot spot

spot

spot!

poems:
inter,space
roadkill season

reviews:
one

Poems
Colors of a Sunset
(this is an anthology of 4 poems does that count? lol

Reviews
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Saving a spot so it motivates me >.>

POEMS:
grimacing at the sand on our feet (but i can't escape the softness of his lips)

REVIEWS:

Poems-

1. My Sun
2. Warm Concrete
3. Bonfire
4. I'm a popsicle, by the pool
5. Driving into the sunset
6. Summer nights
7. The Celestial Proposal
8. Oh, My Moonlit Thief!

Reviews-

1. work/ToastK/Colors-of-a-Sunset-160841#c765811
2. work/Calamity/roadkill-season-160844#c765826
3. work/Calamity/interspace-160829#c765866
4. work/NivedaJames22/How-Pluto-Loves-the-Sun-151282#c765890
5. work/GengarTheGhost/She-was-the-Sun-He-was-the-Moon-155512#c765906
6. work/alliyah/conversing-with-a-locust-about-the-weather-on-the-hottest-day-of-the-year-156050#c765923
7. work/alliyah/Summer-Dissonance-141230#c765933
8. work/alliyah/the-facts-of-orbiting-157185#c765944
9. work/4revgreen/Echoes-of-Summer-148266#c765953
10. work/Divyansh%20%20Dubey/Four-Men-Poem-148770#c765958

sun poetry prompts

from yours truly, just for you :]
> driving with the windows down (preferably during sunset)
> summer fading into fall
> heat waves radiating off the ground
> summer music (we all have a playlist)
> sweat.
> photosynthesis
> childhood summer memories
> hot cars and sticky leather
> dew-soaked grass in the early morning sun
> popsicles & pools