Francine Roberts Poet Free verse

Imminent Rain

The day was hot and muggy.
Heat ... smothering.
Glad to be indoors
in an air-conditioned work place.

Sapphire blue sky overhead,
beautiful , to the stolen glimpses.

Crossing the parking lot en masse
at days end.
The sky no longer bright.
Now almost a greyish-blue haze.
Storm clouds are gathering
in the distance.
Heading inland.

The air tingling with moisture.
In this heat when the rain comes
it will be with thunder
 ... and lightning.

It will make an entrance not to be
ignored

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Keith Bickerstaffe June 21, 2012 at 12:36 AM Not to be ignored indeed! ...especially in Florida!! Very atmospheric, with marvelous imagery. Best wishes, Keith

Robert Pettit February 4, 2012 at 10:15 PM I was at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia watching the Phillies play. A very wicked storm developed with wind gusts and rain coming down in sheets. It lasted about a half hour. The game was delayed, but resumed a little more than an hour later. Those summer storms can be both sudden and bad.

Don Johnson August 22, 2011 at 4:43 AM a day at work by sounds of things, cold as charity down here, sly watching brings an azure sky, here rain drizzle springs, windy, thunder is hybernating, till spring