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Earth Element of Wind

Earth element of wind, elusive to exploring eyes, a gaseous, gusty ghost, she gyrates- gallops gallantly. She bashes, bends, and bobs the branches of each bush and tree, and chases, circles, curls dry fallen leaves so agilely. We hear her bellow, bawl, and bluster when she's feeling fierce; soft sounds of swishing, stirring- sighing when serene and tame. With solid, staunch, and strapping strength, she soon can shift a house within a raucous, raging, raving, reckless, hurricane. She cools, controls, composes in the sultry summer heat, forms wild and wheeling waves with whitecaps on the widespread sea; a force that's fearless, frantic, sometimes, feeble- frail, she flies, impermanent, intangible, she soars invisibly. This ghastly glimmer of great ghostly gumption rushes by, a force that is not sculpture, shadow, silhouette, or shape. We feel and hear her apt and awesome atmospheric breath- until she plans her fast, flirtatious, feathery escape. March 18, 2016 ~1st Place~ Contest: 2019 Poetry Marathon Qualifier's Final Placement Sponsor: Mark Toney Judged: 04/20/2019 ~1st Place~ Contest: 2019 Poetry Marathon Mile 22 Sponsor: Mark Toney Judged: 03/08/2019 ~1st Place~ Contest: Elements Part 2: Wind Sponsor: Brian Davey Judged: 3/29/2016 *Alliteration, Rhyme, written in Iambic Heptameter, 14 Syllables, 7 feet per line

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Mark Toney

Date: 3/12/2023 8:26:00 AM

Sandra, after 122 days, 27 contests, and 945 submitted poems, you have won FIRST PLACE overall in my 2019 Poetry Marathon Contest!!! You had 19 placements out of 27 contests, 12 of which were podium finishes. You toughed out the 27 contests and brought it home at the end. Way to go, Sandra! ~Mark [Please note: My original congratulatory comment on Sandra's First-Place Finish overall was made on 4/20/2019.]

Mark Toney

Date: 3/12/2023 8:13:00 AM

Sandra, WOW! A cornucopia of alliteration aptly appraising the awesome, anomalous attitudes of the wind, from `fierce to tame, even hurricane!' A Fav for me. Congratulations on your First-Place win on Mile 22 of my 2019 Poetry Marathon Contest! Thank you so much for supporting my contests. By continuing to place in the contests you are accumulating points toward the final, just five contests away! ~Mark [Please note: My original congratulatory comment on this poem was made on 3/10/2019.]