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Dear Evening Storm
Contributed by
carrie
on
Saturday, 20th July 2002 @ 02:41:34 PM in AEST
Topic:
NaturePoetry
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Each spasm of light covers the
shadows with its brilliant body,
awakening the angles of objects
once hidden in the dark.
Sending a new day from heaven,
a moment of violent light
interrupts the evening
and then it is gone.
Magnificent torrents of rain
are pelting down upon us.
We hear each miniscule object
answering its strength audibly,
releasing the railroad moan.
Charging to its home,
the earth accepts it.
Nothing else can she do.
Our eyes are blinded for
it strikes so suddenly.
The trees embrace each other.
They fear.
Survival provided but
at a high cost to their battered limbs.
Every crack of light
is urgent and separate.
Each definite in motion,
fierce, impatient, destructive.
Above this dramatic ensemble
cries of alarm are heard.
They urge us to sleep,
speaking in gravelly voices.
The storm is dear to us,
though we fear it.
It is kindred.
The storm envelopes us
in its bright grasp.
And it guides us by its simplicity.
The lovely, painful visitor
drives away and leaves in its wake
a new feeling of serenity
that before escaped us.
Copyright ©
carrie
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2002-07-20 14:41:34] (Date/Time posted on
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Re: Dear Evening Storm
(User Rating: 1 ) by humphdj on
Sunday, 21st July 2002 @ 12:51:19 AM AEST (User
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The lovely, painful visitor
drives away and leaves in its wake
a new feeling of serenity
that before escaped us.
Lost for words.....this is remarkable.
Rgds
Dave
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