A Windy Edge

It runs low off the moors,
when it gets to this blustering brink,
it shoves and ropes, it punches eyes.

When it sweeps this ledge
it bites like a viper, it's voice
forged in whirlpools of chaos.

My legs tremble in a corkscrew tug of war.
Gust-mobed clouds crush molecules of fear.
Rain hacks and mauls.

This raw wind has me by the throat;
now all the non-rooted must sink or float,
or be delivered down to the deep dale
and a more sheltering sky.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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Ashford Avatar
July 12, 2019 at 3:23 PM
Cool feedback Richard. I did a lot right in this poem, but in my files, I have made a not that it still needs work. Hopefully, I will return to it one day. Thanks!
Lamoureux Avatar
July 12, 2019 at 8:45 AM
You have skills! Wind has never been described so succinctly.
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