You know it's Summer - the Rain is Warmer

Depressingly wet 
You're welcome to Dismaland
The Rain Gods get it

Alice's Fifth Friend

The Cheshire Cat
Thought Dr Seuss a prize prat;
Losing a dear hat on fadin'
Leaves a pretty lopsided grin.

credit: John Tenniel

The Fourth of Alice's Friends

The Red Queen

Never allowed her flamingos to preen.

Their beaks were buffed with Polish polish

Scented with essence of Swish fish.

credit: John Tenniel

Cos they're little gems?

Lettuce know NASA
How rabbit food grows in space?
It's rocket science.

credit: NASA

Second and Third (or vice versa) of Alice's Friends

Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Inseparable, even in poetry
Sans alternating billing, they grow glum
Tweedledee and Tweedledum

credit: John Tenniel

Taken from the Deep

Action Stations still
Watches no longer governed
By Mighty 'Ood's bell

or do you prefer

Slumber undisturbed
Fifteen hundred fathoms deep
No more hours' tolling

 Copyright: Paul G Allen.

Bravo Zulu, Mr Allen and team for recovering HMS Hood's bell from the Denmark Strait, at a depth of ~2,800m, and donating it to the Royal Navy's National Museum. It will serve as a memorial to the 1,415 officers and men who died when she sank on 24th May 1941 in action against the KMS Bismarck and Prinz Eugen. Only three men, Briggs, Tindall and Dundas survived her sinking, though they too have now joined their shipmates.

First of Alice's Friends

Humpty Dumpty
Had no need of a dictionary
He was all broken up to find
Ground is also the past tense of grind

credit: John Tenniel

Nagasaki

Eyes seared by the light
Of the second atom bomb
Less fame but still death

"Nagasaki temple destroyed" by Cpl. Lynn P. Walker, Jr. (Marine Corps) - 

DOD "War and Conflict" image collection (HD-SN-99-02900). 

Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

What's occurring?

Thought Barycentre
Heart of a Welsh coastal town
'Til New Horizons

Credit: Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA's New Horizons probe brought everyone's attention to the barycentre - the common centre of mass around which two (or more) bodies orbit. Where one body (eg Earth) is much larger than the other (eg, the Moon), the barycentre lies below the surface of the larger body. Where the difference between masses is smaller, or non-existent, such as is the case for Pluto and its largest satellite Charon, the barycentre is clear, as both worlds in such a binary system can be seen to be orbiting around it.

credit: "Pluto-Charon System" by Stephanie Hoover - Own work. Wikipedia

What's in the grass?

Red-stained yellow bills
Gulls congregate heads dipping
Harvesting supper