Creamy-Porridge Skies

The creamy-porridge skies 
Gave us drizzle at noon 
  The sun’s drooping violet 
Palette squinted over the hills
And hid there, for the clouds 
Were annulling her will.
   
   At one the rain shifted its weight 
To white withering gloom,
With haste warmed to puddles 
Which watered the walk
Sustaining the blade’s colored 
Green-gray fluttering stalks
Which lashed in the wind 
As a whip’s cracking cord 
Snaps like lighting strikes 
Who writhe from the Lord 
With cries of agony found alone 
In those troubled with toil
And so sunk their roots 
Deep down the soggy brown soil.

   Thus, the bleak flat land 
Has been deprived of defense 
To be destroyed ‘til the freak 
Winds hush and relent.
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