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Storm Of The Century
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Storm Of The Century |
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Kevo Member
since 2004-06-02
Posts 466Navarro County, Texas, USA 
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Storm of the Century Distant thunder rolls across bowing plains suppressed by Mother Nature as she claims her throne. The rocker chills my back tonight as I watch fury unfold in the distance. How quickly it raises the hair on the back of your neck. Hues of violet and ice blue deliver the jagged banks of raging streams, splitting this midnight sky that delivered only stars moments earlier. Mother ushers me to the front row of midnight’s stage. Still I sit in that cool rocker lost in the play unfolding before me. The lion roars in the mothers den. Alas, the show begins on my stage in the confines of my own fields. The grass humbled bows in defeat. As the chorus of leaves sing their haunting warning above me, taunting thoughts beckon me, “Leave in peace and without fear. Remain and find this play unfold before eyes and ears unbelieving.” Tornado watch plays upon the television screen ticker. I can read it through the pane tendering shelter from the rage of a mother scorned. While the mother of my children prepares the tiny room in the center of our very lives. Always preparing for the worst, she knows the resolve of a mother well. She knows not to taunt, nor to deliver herself. I, on the other hand, find I am bound by a lack of understanding; never quite comprehending the will of a woman, much less a mother. Like so many fools, I stay rocking, waiting, delivering myself to the storm While demanding my children to stay safely inside. Limbs, ripped from their lofty homes only allude to her fury as the fire streaks above me. I have never seen such rain. My hypocrisy is short lived tonight. For me this show is over, at least from refuge of a soaked rocker abruptly blown over. Refuge offers its haunting show from the false security of a window-pane. Tornados in Freestone, Hill, and Ellis, rip away the landscape choking in the wind. The windows swell, coming to life, Heaving back and forth, Breathing life into fear. Clattering upon the roof! This show ceases to amuse me as lightning flash reveals... baseball-size hai!l slamming into the sidewalk that welcomes me home. How is it missing my lamp-post? This chorus shortened by another deluge of rain. Time to go to sleep. Up in three hours. Another storm awaits me amidst the raging sea of progress. …If those roads …If my drive …If my home allows safe passage. The sun perches among The battered oaks And lamenting birds. News flashes record The minutes beyond The false security Of brick façade. Ten inches of rain. Three people dead. Yet, another night in the Texas skies. Copyright, Kevin V. Reese, 2004 |
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nakdthoughts Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200Between the Lines |
Hues of violet and ice blue deliver the jagged banks of raging streams, splitting this midnight sky that delivered only stars moments earlier. vivid descriptions~~ I think we have had more than one storm of the century this year so far... Hope all is well on your end M |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
It happens that fast, that violently... that violet... Excellent job, Kevin! |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
Kevin, stay safe please |
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MGROVES
since 2004-02-01
Posts 3802california |
wow at a loss for words again WOW!! |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Nice writing...James |
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