Best Cloudburst Poems

from a cloudburst,
a bouquet of sparrows...

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Your touch on my body
Saw an ocean in a drop
Couldn’t check onrush...

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Nimbus’ pets unleashed:
listen as pitter patters
alter purrs and barks....

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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...

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thunderous black clouds 
                                     sinuous blinding lightning
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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...

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The clouds are edging,
Teasing us with drops of rain,
Sun upon our backs.

(c) PJ Bayliss

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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...

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Black cloud mystery!
Shadows on the mountainside!
Moving in twilight!...

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a cloudburst deluge 
everything comes to a halt
then rainbows appear 

Written June 26, 2022...

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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
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Over the city - 
rainclouds
   People walking on the 
streets
feel 
    the steady beat 
of the raindrops
     As the afternoon passes
 weary eyes 
            turn...

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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...

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A Cloudburst 

Only now too clear, _ it seems… 
Lifted on haunches of late morning mists
A long lost sun once pulled from blue skied dreams

Only now too clear, _ it seems… 
That never known before 
Past early morning’s darkened clouds had schemed

A callused heart; tracked...

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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...

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