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Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

0 posted 2014-05-08 11:51 AM

Ahead of the brewing storm
the insolent wind
shoves my skin
in syncopated patterns
Whistling trees warn of
an impending protagonist
The flickering screen is interrupted
by color enhanced Doppler blobs
migrating across a map
A lone sentinel sits smoking
with an eye on the weather
as rain plays hit and miss

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2014-05-08 11:55 AM

Now that's a stunning, weather-related poem that brings on the intensity and drama of a first class horror flick. Good going my friend!!!

~*~ Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway? ~*~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

2 posted 2014-05-08 12:24 PM

I was kinda hoping for that. Thanks! It was sort of intense like that last night, but then it petered out after a jet propelled sprinkle or two. Which means we also missed out on hail and damaging winds (yea!)
Lori

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

3 posted 2014-05-08 09:03 PM

fine slice of 'weather reality!' ...

meteorology/climatology was my 'minor' at university
... still fascinated by it ... particularly the "finger of god"
(F5) tornadoes!

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

4 posted 2014-05-09 06:25 AM

Thanks Bruce,
I was trying to find a way to tell "the storm story" in different words. Every time there is a severe weather warning in effect, it becomes a dramatic event (often a non-event) and inspirational. 'Tis the season to be inspired.

"I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto."
The Wizard of Oz

Lori

EmmaRose
Senior Member

since 2011-03-02

Posts 1376
Midwest

5 posted 2014-05-09 05:45 PM

well done in its presentation of life's uncertainty related to the hold weather has on us all

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

6 posted 2014-05-10 01:24 PM

Thanks EmmaRose! Good choice of words "hold on us" I agree!

Lori

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