Cloudburst, furious flood
Damaging drains, soiled soil
Erosion, gully, death.
Boiling mad torrent
Sweeping, digging, dragging.
All unto the stage
where the earth
swallowed the hearth
Leaving in its wake a dearth
of life.
Turbulence in the Ocean
from the macabre
dance of debris and dirt
Burying the rock in the muck.
Yet amid the chaos
a new life begins
with passion and pain.
Culled from "Echoes of the Savannah" © Makinde Adebayo ADENIYI, 2024
Crowns our world with clouds, green plants and waters.
Sun, moon, stars, rains and rainbows ~ its daughters
Their beams from far in one dead outer space.
Atmospheres pack airs into its vast vase.
Sparks up lights to send armies of thunders,
To shake warriors with earthly blunders,
Hills whispers to snow to fall on their laps,
Leaves dance while each cloudburst fills up their wraps.
Sun shines as gold giving lives to shadows,
that are models for the smiles ~ each night chose.
With their hearts beaming as twinkling blazes ~
which bring sleeps, dreams and nightmares in phases.
Every year, seasons pretend to be grooms,
To marry cold or heat in fine costumes ~
mariages that last just a short while,
But they still return in a bigger style.
dark clouds gathering
atmospheric pressure drops
umbrellas unfold
april showers fall
huge raindrops pitter patter
i dream of sunshine
sun peeks through grey clouds
scent of petrichor rises
kids jump in puddles
beautiful rainbow
arcs sky with vivid colours
warming zephyr breeze
sun appears after the rain
blackbird starts to sing again
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05/29/23
two bodies shudder
locked arms and legs disengage…
wild wind rushes in
agitated the tent flees
they took an early shower
© Harry J Horsman 2023
As lightning brights the meadow
And thunder dulls the air;
I feel it still,
A stormy chill,
An aura everywhere.
I wander o'er the pathway
And paddle through the rain;
My bootheels squash
The squelchy wash
Along the puddled lane.
My face refreshed with teardrops
The clouds have wept from high;
They gently wet
My eyes, and yet,
They barely seem to cry.
I dance on midst the moisture
The hail sends down to earth;
I sense the beat
Beneath my feet
And sing for all I'm worth.
But then the fulgid sunlight
Warms the land once more;
I'm home to you
As I step through
A rainbow's archwayed door.
a cloudburst deluge
everything comes to a halt
then rainbows appear
Written June 26, 2022
Rain clatters the window,
a cloudburst in his climax.
He listens to his body buck away
from a vertex.
He feels bruised by his ******
as if she had tricked him;
there had been a rock in her river.
Her cigarette smoke,
now swirls like a ghost in a raindrop.
Cloudburst
With dark clouds of incessant gloom set to burst,
Clarity shines first;
Subtle winds caress as fragrance goes in air,
Imagine the flair;
Melody unveils in a sparrow's soft chirp,
Dances every twerp;
Overflowing emotions set turbulence,
Ocean's pure essence;
Only to quench thirst,
The heart at its worst,
With dark clouds of incessant gloom set to burst.
Written Nov 3, 2018
For " half eleven poetry contest"
Sponsor- Nina Parmenter
heaven opens up
unleashing sudden downpour
who saw that coming?
Date written and posted: 08/02/2018
A silence unexpectedly arrived
And swiftly birds and animals withdrew
A darkness and a calm as if contrived
Emerged from what was once sunlight and blue
As sudden as the lightning that ensued
A thunderous concussion wrapped in rain
Draped everything in sight and with it blew
A wind the summer heat could not contain
Then faster than it left ... the sun returned again
Written July 4, 2018
Cloudburst Aftermath
Humid scent of soured pavement
rises from a city’s steaming streets
accompanied by rippling gutter streams
babbling and choking on floating debris.
I wave as wet winged voyagers
cling to tawdry, fragile craft
shooting the cobblestone rapids
of Boston’s Beacon Hill.
Wafting from the alleys of the rich -
the detritus of wealth - an acrid stench,
waste, mocking the grumbling bellies
waiting on line at the dingy soup kitchen.
I walk alone among Boston’s “Common”
looking for the “cracks” they “fell” through.
11/22/2017
submitted to – Choose A Topic – Heartbreak and Loss
thunderous black clouds
sinuous blinding lightning
river swells in spate
Reminding yourself to breathe
as the stratosphere is falling,
imagine verses tumbling
midst downpours' dissension
sans sentimentality's
loquacious language,
and the land is left barren
as verbosity disintegrates
and emotions wholly perish
'neath fickle cloudbursts
of poetry's extinction
The clouds are edging,
Teasing us with drops of rain,
Sun upon our backs.
(c) PJ Bayliss
In the black dirt where the worms flirt
Trees root in the dark earth
Fruit falls like a dead limb
Rain pours like a soft hymn
Boys whine, girls glow
Ice forms as the wind blows
The corn tilts, the hills moan
The sky hides as the rocks groan
Reeds sway, dogs bay
A hungry beast enchants its prey
The fog blurs, the grass stirs
And through the mist the moon returns
And where a tired body bends
To taste a running stream
A flood of pounding hailstones rends
What rain and wind sweep clean
Written by © Raven Drake
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