Best Cloudburst Poems
from a cloudburst,
a bouquet of sparrows
Your touch on my body
Saw an ocean in a drop
Couldn’t check onrush
Nimbus’ pets unleashed:
listen as pitter patters
alter purrs and barks.
two bodies shudder
locked arms and legs disengage…
wild wind rushes in
agitated the tent flees
they took an early shower
© Harry J Horsman 2023
thunderous black clouds
sinuous blinding lightning
river swells in spate
In the black dirt where the worms flirt
Trees root in the dark earth
Fruit falls like a dead limb
Rain pours like a soft hymn
Boys whine, girls glow
Ice forms as the wind blows
The corn tilts, the hills moan
The sky hides as the rocks groan
Reeds sway, dogs bay
A hungry beast enchants its prey
The fog blurs, the grass stirs
And through the mist the moon returns
And where a tired body bends
To taste a running stream
A flood of pounding hailstones rends
What rain and wind sweep clean
Written by © Raven Drake
The light from your eyes ignites my night.
When two souls mingle, double or single.
The epitome of attachment is felt.
Rain stops not lovers from
dancing in dark, muddy streets.
Bodies together are sensuous treats.
I swing in your arms to reach the sky,
O such a blissful rain.
No words compare with your name.
We choreograph love's sea of sensation,
together we merge in our thoughts.
No music plays in the background.
Hearts generate the melody of passion.
Bare skin displays our intimate fashion.
When love becomes an endless obsession,
the heart binding dance
enhances currents of romance.
A heavenly kiss breaks the thunder
to paradise we gladly surrender.
Co-written with lovely Smriti Jha
The clouds are edging,
Teasing us with drops of rain,
Sun upon our backs.
(c) PJ Bayliss
Black cloud mystery!
Shadows on the mountainside!
Moving in twilight!
a cloudburst deluge
everything comes to a halt
then rainbows appear
Written June 26, 2022
As lightning brights the meadow
And thunder dulls the air;
I feel it still,
A stormy chill,
An aura everywhere.
I wander o'er the pathway
And paddle through the rain;
My bootheels squash
The squelchy wash
Along the puddled lane.
My face refreshed with teardrops
The clouds have wept from high;
They gently wet
My eyes, and yet,
They barely seem to cry.
I dance on midst the moisture
The hail sends down to earth;
I sense the beat
Beneath my feet
And sing for all I'm worth.
But then the fulgid sunlight
Warms the land once more;
I'm home to you
As I step through
A rainbow's archwayed door.
Reminding yourself to breathe
as the stratosphere is falling,
imagine verses tumbling
midst downpours' dissension
sans sentimentality's
loquacious language,
and the land is left barren
as verbosity disintegrates
and emotions wholly perish
'neath fickle cloudbursts
of poetry's extinction
Cloudburst Aftermath
Humid scent of soured pavement
rises from a city’s steaming streets
accompanied by rippling gutter streams
babbling and choking on floating debris.
I wave as wet winged voyagers
cling to tawdry, fragile craft
shooting the cobblestone rapids
of Boston’s Beacon Hill.
Wafting from the alleys of the rich -
the detritus of wealth - an acrid stench,
waste, mocking the grumbling bellies
waiting on line at the dingy soup kitchen.
I walk alone among Boston’s “Common”
looking for the “cracks” they “fell” through.
11/22/2017
submitted to – Choose A Topic – Heartbreak and Loss
Over the city -
rainclouds
People walking on the
streets
feel
the steady beat
of the raindrops
As the afternoon passes
weary eyes
turn homeward
Somewhere in the distance
songs are being sung
Tunes which bring happiness
to a cloud - covered city
Urban dwellers
await each note
with great anticipation
Joy is something we can
take
delight in
If we open our eyes
and ears
To the many universes
Which lie beyond our urban home
A silence unexpectedly arrived
And swiftly birds and animals withdrew
A darkness and a calm as if contrived
Emerged from what was once sunlight and blue
As sudden as the lightning that ensued
A thunderous concussion wrapped in rain
Draped everything in sight and with it blew
A wind the summer heat could not contain
Then faster than it left ... the sun returned again
Written July 4, 2018