Stormy Weather

Seaweed, fragmented shell as cannonballs in maelstrom hurled upon the shore. The bellowing wind cast all asunder as Summer’s shoots from shifting sand were torn. Such was Autumn’s storm. The sleet was blown in horizontal sheets as figures double-bent fought step by step to make but little progress, homeward bound. The sky was lost in billowing grey, forlorn. Such was Winter’s storm. Relentlessly the wind swept off the ocean with yet more rain to swell the sodden peat. A daily deluge on embattled land, with hope yet stirring seeds of life newborn. Such was Springtime’s storm. The grey skies shift to blue, and now a breeze is heralding a longed-for transformation. With rainbow colours Mother Earth is blessed and all the islands of the west caressed, reborn. Sweet Summer knows no storm.