Notes About The Poem

This is poem #7 of my Poetry Portfolio for class.

Poetry Portfolio--Ravaging Storm

She pulls up the driveway...

The storm comes
The rain starts to pelt the Earth
It begins to splinter the wood
Cut into the hard ground
Like a knife made to cut
The lightning bears its own crackle
Shards of it splits the sky
And the thunder
Oh the thunder rolls
Like a bass drum the never ends
And brings the ears into fragments
As the wind slashes across
The landscape, brushing it with steel
The rain has no chance to survive
It pounds whatever is around
As the wind pulses through the air
Like a hurricane, lost and brutal
To the land it delves into
Moving, separating each
From its life, into darkness
Just like the sky, in the eye
Of the ravaging storm

Russell Sivey
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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August 21, 2017 at 6:07 AM
Extraordinary piece, Russell - so descriptive with wonderful phrasing and flow - I love this! Excellent work!!
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August 20, 2017 at 6:41 AM
Wow, the detail in this poem is amazing! You have the ability to bring the reader right to the situation with your words, Russell. Very well done! :)
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