Bill Marable Poet Free verse

Torrent

The rain comes heavy
Ascending from clouds saturated with summer 
A river appears in my driveway 

It follows the slope of the land 
fills a shallow pond to it’s brink
Frogs delight blending a throated chorus to the melody of the storm 

Thunder, the handclap of God, 
Summons the Crescendo - lightening bolts - 
No rainbows at night 

An elm, drunk from heaven’s nectar,
stumbles to the ground 
Her branches alter the river’s path 
Filling the hole where her majestic trunk once stood 

Out of death,
Life appears

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Alison A Smith September 9, 2026 at 2:29 AM A powerful free-verse meditation on nature’s fierce cycle of destruction and renewal. The torrent’s escalating imagery, from the frogs’ “throated chorus” to the fallen elm redirecting the water, gives the storm a vivid, almost sacred presence—and the closing affirmation of life emerging from death lands with quiet strength.