Written for: Poetic Asides #484
“For today’s prompt, take the phrase “On (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and write your poem. Possible titles include: “On Point,” “On Target,” “On and Off,” and “On the Last Day of School.”
On sizzling summer days
apartment dwellers
climbed up to the roof to lay
their blankets on ‘Tar Beach’.
Another world existed on
that tarred roof. We would
stand up and look at all
surrounding roofs.
Some had flower pots
with wilted-jilted petals.
Beach chairs adorned others,
their aluminum arms capable
of burning your skin
at slightest touch. Notes
of music wafted through air
across adjoining roofs. If
evening evolved in sultry swell
people stayed, danced, drank
a few beers. Some slept there
all night to avoid stifling
apartments. Some made love.
