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F-5 Tornado
The warm temperature drops outdoors,
    And first drops of fresh rain sprinkle.
      The thunder claps right above me,
         As lightening is striking afar.
      ...

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Categories: tornado, natural disastersrain, flying, rain,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Tornado
Torrential rain, blinding wind howling, 
Dark heavy clouds ominously scowling,
Brilliant radiant light of electric flashes,
Following the lightning, defiant crashes,

Loudest blasts make brave men cower,
Thunder so deafening it exudes power,
I was born of a powerful thunderstorm.
Still attached to its base, I will spawn.

Nature’s most violent, I...

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Categories: tornado, storm, wind,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Tornado
I watch the storm clouds gathering,
I hear the siren scream,
Is this really happening,
Or is it just a dream?

Hurry, run for shelter,
But which way will it go?
My heart is beating wildly,
Now the wind begins to blow.

The sun above me glistens,
This can't be what it seems,
How can...

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Categories: tornado, imagination, , western,
Form:

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Along Tornado Alley
All that time will do 
is install you
in comfortable stockings.

The wind howls away the years.
Foxes hunt even while we sleep.
The binding is broken.
The straps are disconnected.

Wind carries away
even massive objects.
It is the tornado of life.
Chunk chunk
Clink clink

The mind keeps puffing
like a steamer.
Even pine trees are...

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© Bill Yates  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tornado, storm, weather,
Form: Free verse
Tornado
Pigs flying through  air
A barn falls swiftly to  earth
Tornado goes away...

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Categories: tornado, weather,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member How to Tame a Tornado: How to Halt a Hurricane
The possibilities are endless
With every new scientific discovery.
There is inspiration to invent devices
That improve quality of life
And save lives in the process.

Spin with the wave and slow it down
With drones and electromagnetism.
Entropy and vacuums.
Spin with the wave, then slow it down
With science and ingenuity.

Catch the...

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Categories: tornado, inspiration,
Form: Free verse



Tornado Alley
A tornado comes and goes so quick
 Sometimes revisiting on the same day
 Air humid, breathing hard and thick
 Best advice given…get out of its way

 Sounds like freight train bearing down
 Delivers this –Varoommmmmmmmmm
 Next best advice--don’t live in a valley
 Respite from twisters...

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Categories: tornado, death, life, storm,
Form: Free verse
Tornado-
 We just go round and round
In endless circles
Hot and Cold
Always chasing eachother
Going no where
Ending up with nothing
Yet destroying everything
In our path
As we play
The same
Old
Games 

(10/23/13)...

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Categories: tornado, angst, confusion, imagery, introspection,
Form: Shape
Premium Member I Dream In Tornado
I dream in tornado,
          gray spinning 
               blade of pulsing
            ...

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Categories: tornado, mother, nature, pain,
Form: Elegy
Tornado
Violent wind swirl
Unpredictable movement
Destruction certain...

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© James Knox  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tornado, nature
Form: Haiku
Tornado Tango
Dancing the tango
Multiple vortices twist
Rhythmic destruction...

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© Abe Lopez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tornado, nature
Form: Haiku
Tornado In Alabama, April 27, 2011
Oh how furious it was, God sent his power from above.  He let the Black clouds 
and the rain come gushing through our window panes.  Oh what scary a sight to see,
I felt like running, I tried to free me.  The gushing...

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Categories: tornado, fear, history, life, loss,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Premium Member God Sent An E-F-5 My Way
On Sunday last my troubles blew away in an E-F-5.
Good grief, Big Mean mama said, “Could you not keep my boy alive?”
I had been praying for a wonderful catastrophe like this.
For Frank G. Dell was a rounder, a real misfit.

He was known to slap me...

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Categories: tornado, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Assume Nothing of Storms
For an hour
Cicadas saw at the early August evening
While thunder purrs as kittens
In the yarn of dark clouds balled up out west over Ionia County

Trees prepare their umbrellas
The Tigers on TV swing away in the 3rd inning
A good book in hand

Then out of hand
A den...

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Categories: tornado, age, creation, environment, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Raging Malice
……….gale force winds announce the doom
…………………..portent of a dark and deathly gloom
…………………………..a maddening shriek of raging wind
……………………….howling terror the frightening din
………….rips great trees from the ground
….tosses the structures all around
………….raging malice haunting fright
………………twister spinning in the night
……………………….darkened clouds surging
…………….wind and rain merging
…..funnel of mighty hell
..tolls...

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Categories: tornado, nature,
Form: Shape

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry