Wendy Rycroft Poet Free verse

Avalanche

It was all in the balance,
Freezing Artic weather,
Blizzards of falling snow,
Accumulating rapidly,
Just a matter of time,
The mountain held the weight,
It gathered,
Deeper and heavier,
But for how long?
How much could it hold?
Before turning,
Into a ticking time bomb,
Exploding and falling,
Most times unnoticed,
Regular occurrences,
From human eyes,
Other times masses,
Speeding,
Descending,
Turning deadly,
Changing course,
And firing its trigger,
Shattering like a pane of glass,
Too much too quickly,
Downhill powered,
The whole village,
Unexpected,
Thousands of innocent people,
Covered and wiped out,
Buried, 
Under the avalanche disasters,

07/01/2017

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Jan Allison January 19, 2017 at 2:46 PM I heard the news of the hotel in Italy and your poem is such a vivid descriptive write on these terrible tragedies:-( hugs Jan xx Wendy Rycroft January 19, 2017 at 4:34 PM Thank you, Jan for reading my poem x I wrote it two weeks ago I had watched a program on the tv and it really touched me x

Andrea Dietrich January 13, 2017 at 6:47 PM so sad to know that whole villages can be destroyed that way! Very descriptive, Wendy! Wendy Rycroft January 14, 2017 at 12:39 PM Thank you Andrea x