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"Along with the thunder there's gotta be a little rain sometime." - quote by the author with apologies to Lynn Anderson's Lyrics for the song "Rose Garden".
“It’s not about waiting for the storm to pass, It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” - Vivian Greene - often attributed
“When the thunder roars it breaks the silence, so the heavens can weep, and we may drink and dream again.” - Traditional Japanese proverb + Henry David Thoreau, journal, 1841

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Along With The Thunder

With limp thunder 
came silent still-born rain.
Sky broke, 
clouds chose 
to play apart today,
as the gray clad stand-ins 
in blue duffel coats, 
and snow white hoods
slunk away, to fade away,
like peals of bells
fade when echoes fail
to surface on
soft absorbent 
compliant surfaces.

Black clouds like the thunder
missed the role-call.
Remained waiting
in the bleachers
for someone
to applaud,
to gee-up
the thunder with claps, 
to raise a curtain call.
 
To giddy-up, giddy-up 
the mighty steed Thunder,
to do its 
clippety-clop, clippety-clop thing. 
to do its
rumble, rattle and roll,
with steely shod and shiny
hooves on cobble stones.

Sometimes my dear steed Thunder,
led along on its reins and bridle,
enters the storm unmounted, 
hushed to neigh forlorn,
in gray clouds, 
in sky-blue skies.

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