summer storm tanka
light fractures the sky overhead, the explosion crashes and smashes, roaring to the universe of heaven’s summer power . . As I write, the sky is flashing and the rain is pouring down. The thundering...
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Whoa. On upturned pots and pans some rocking sky child, some deity’s progeny, is beating, bashing crashing, smashing a percussive cacophony, complete with slashing, flashing light show. . And not...
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Epic battle: light and dark. Musket muzzles flash Light bayonets the hills with slashing stabs. In the concussion of the cannonade Houses rattle. . . So let’s discuss this poem. Despite the nice...
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She fills the sky with a rainfall of words, a hurricane of syllables, a thundering of sentences. She brews a storm, but he stands impermeable in silent eloquence amid her eye....
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I hear your distant rumblings. Your grumblings do not impress. I can shut the windows and let your storm pass by. Tagged: metaphor, micropoetry, poem, poetry, storm
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All evening the hills have been illuminated by a laser light show, and now the skies are streaming; white mist hides the hills, enfolding us as the heavens flash and crash above. Tagged: alliteration,...
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Skin ripples Head surges Stomach rolls Body is a stormy sea. Tagged: metaphor, migraine, nausea, pain, poem, poetry, quatrain, storm
View Articlehaiku storm
rippling waves sparkling with emerald, peridot, citrine storm tossed tree. Tagged: haiku, metaphor, poem, poetry, storm, summer, tree
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Between the slats of the Venetian blinds, I see outside the window, to frenzied frolicking blue spruce bouncing pine tree pirouetting maple making waves beneath a grey sky dancing in time to my wind...
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The rain has stopped Thunder in October? The world has changed. The wind blows off the dead, flings pieces of forest in a mad dance to burial & rebirth. Tagged: autumn, change, cycles, fall,...
View Articlepoem-white
Streaks of white flash past my windshield like I’m entering hyper-space, hoping not to be hit by space debris (or other cars) ’cause that’d end my trip real quick, wouldn’t it? No one really likes...
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Lightning has sliced the sky forced apart air until the earth is shaking with fear of it. Tagged: metaphor, personification, poem, poetry, storm
View Articlepoem- ominous omnipotence
The clouds sink obscuring hills with billows: silver, grey, charcoal, black. Heavy clouds in cold air ready to coat the highway with danger. We gaze out our windows wondering whether we’ll get home...
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Another storm warning. Cotton clouds turn into coal smoke, Flashes splice the sky. We’re drenched by pelting rain, until it blows by again. Wouldn’t it be nice if the newscaster flashed storm warnings...
View Articlepoem- weathering
Blue sky Slight breeze Rocking of the lounge Toss the dog’s ball Feel summer approach. Thunder in the south Booming concussion shakes the land Storm brewing Run or Hold fast?
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