Showing posts with label storm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label storm. Show all posts

Saturday, April 8, 2017

Storm



Driving home
rain lashes our car,
waves slash the road

like blood running,
like red streams
from tail-lights as


the sky's anger,
grief unleashed
consumes the world.


Hands clasped
on the steering wheel,
I guide us home


where we remember
that you are gone.


Tears rain
down our window
panes.

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Winter Morning

You raged all night,
urging black clouds
to mutinous thunder.

What wind blows from
such mighty lungs
that heaven itself
bends to the blast?

In sleep's confusion
I heard you
calling me
out of the dark,
into winter’s
dim light

where trees rise
still and bare
into the sepia air

and small birds
search
the desolate earth. 


(21 Dec. 2010)

Sunday, March 20, 2016

Holy Saturday

Storms pass, winds subside
life abides.

See how the cottonwoods
spread new leaves,
fill the blank sky with
emerald sheen
as waving vines praise
the living spirit
of spring,

for soon the shrouded sun will flame
through constraining mists
and in glory rise to complete
this forgiven world
and set it free.



(16 April 2014)

Thursday, February 27, 2014

morning storm

http://www.ibiblio.org/kelly/vnc/at/pics/snowcap.jpg

bright smudge in slate clouds
violence on the mountain
morning of the storm.

Friday, November 16, 2012

Night Plows



lights glare, clouds rise, flare
in the night, blades split earth, fur-
rows before the storm.

November Wind

cold wind
tears at my hair

thin wisps,
fine threads
make me 
blind

as towards bright 
rooms I run

through silver sleet 
piercing my core, 

I pass
through winter's 
icy door.

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Turbulence






layer upon layer
pounding out
justification,
         
charged and ready to strike, 

cold winds blow,
bright rains ache 
ready to flow.