Photo by roadrunners
From abundanthope.net
flashing seams jagged splits
rip the sky crack electrical
whips dagger-tipped solid
flames stab at mountaintops
jolting deep igneous brains
blackened tree corpses
futilely rooted bear vehement
evidence violence visits itself
unexplained without purpose
burning both bark and the pith
of ten-thousand year growth
with impunity leaving whole
civilized landscapes to wail
lamentations their lachrymal
faces upturned to their fears
of more helpless tomorrows
Poesy plus Polemics 
Simply superb.
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cheers
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Awesome!!
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thank you kindly
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Dagger. Yikes. Makes lightning even more frightening.
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ha ha – just don’t wear any tin hats
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Reblogged this on OUR POETRY CORNER.
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thank you for sharing my poem with your readers
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Just returned from eastern WA where the landscape is scorched everywhere you look from fires kindled by lightning . . . Every few miles, another house burned to its foundation, the owners sifting through ashes for something of value . . . But the fish were still all at home . . .
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in the land of Mt St Helens, I suspect folks are more than intimate with nature’s tragic side
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Fabulous imagery.
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thanks, figgy
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Reblogged this on Poesy plus Polemics.
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The first five lines are great.
They moved me to pen this down:
•a whip
with jagged-edged splits
break against the sky’s back.
each roar reverberating,
after
the paths of celestial veins
are traced luminously
across the angry sky.
~Freak Lightning~•
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appreciate your most creative comment
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