Best Cloudbursts Poems

 POTD 25 Nov 2020

Manage your Stress … a peeling faded poster boldly declares 
I do get it about advertising campaigns. 
Enough to know that,
‘strategically placed ads’ catching the eye, is huge. 
But this poster has seen better days ~
There’s nothing that screams out anymore.
So...

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Your feathered words arrive tickling my ears
The tip of your nose brushes
The back of my neck
My skin awakens

I have been calling you
Calling you back into my consciousness
My heart 
My soul

Speak to me.... let me hear you
Your deep voice
Your warm breath
I feel you on my cheeks

Memories...

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POTD - 25th September 2024

Synopsis - 

A bitter-sweet, hauntingly romantic and heart-wrenching ballad that follows her journey of sorrow and longing, as she searches for answers to a love torn apart. Watch as the story unfolds, revealing the depths of her heartbreak. Thank you for...

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Flair

of ink

spilling sweet

cloudbursts of thought

flare billows of young imagination -

daydreamers ride the mind of story-time

using wands of

enchantment

penning 

worlds 


Susan Ashley
November 28, 2020


~ Third Place ~
Contest: Double Tetractys 6
Sponsor: Eve Roper
Picture # 1

Poetry Soup Syllable Counter Per Line: 1 2 3 4 10 10 4 3...

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And We Call It……

Sprinkles, drizzles,
Mists and downpours;
Torrents, cloudbursts
Liquid sunshine;
Showers, deluge,
Mists and squalls,
Gully washers -
Thunder showers.

Pelting, pounding,
Soaking, drenching;
Dancing, pouring
Cats and dogs;
Bursting, drifting
Floating, falling,
Coming down
In buckets.

Comes in summer
Rides on thunder,
Comes in autumn
Twirls on whirlwinds;
Comes in winter
Plays with blizzards;
Comes in springtime
Floats on breezes.

Puddles, pools
Of standing water;
Dripping eaves –
Filling...

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Himalayan  Trip-Trap

They poured in,  before the deluge
To surpass the natives in numbers
folks in their  cribs -through-hearse  stages, 
trusting like kids,  a burnished sky,  blue-white, 
a cocktail of the wrong and right,
and the mountains, inwardly  grumbling ,
darkly forbidding…

Snaking it...

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LOST SOUVENIRS


Your distant gaze flits, nearly bare
Like a mist that smothers the road
Windblown by chill; here, everywhere
A  promise ending as breaths explode 

My heart trickles as dew submits
To a quivering that grieves,
For our tattered love now wilts
As  sullen face of moon retrieves.

Oh, cloudbursts...

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days of rain

charcoal black skies churn
 endless days of pouring rain ~
  puddle reflections

thunder showers roar
 torrential pounding rhythms beat ~
  pearls drip from bare twigs

showers from cloudbursts
 in crystal liquid sunshine ~
  season of rainbows

sculptures of branches
 twist in a winter...

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with punishing fury
   yesternight
the skies wreaked their havoc
   a rat-a-tat-tat of hail bullets
midst wave upon wave of rain
   drenching the earth

this morn winds whipped
   and whistled
cross bleak landscapes
   occasional afterthoughts
of cloudbursts stinging the souls
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8-16 Lines of Fall Splendor – 9-12-23
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Storms of Fall Splendor

Whirlwinds of splendor jitterbug in back streets,
Autumn’s song breathes in a blizzard of umber,
Downpours of vermillion create flushed retreats
Crimson cloudbursts, impetuous as thunder.

Tempests magenta scuttle on winding roads
While squalls of cerise in warm copper whorls twirl
Gusts...

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Snowy white owl, tell me a secret
Should I dwell on the past or should I just leave it
Depth and expression of feelings so strong
Is it a strength or could it be wrong
Longing, yearning, depth of it growing
Explore every feeling, not fully knowing
Past, present, future.....mingled as...

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A blinding flash across the sky,
   As thunder follows,one by one
   Dark fenzied cloudbursts quickly cry
.
   Cool winds that started with a sigh,
   Now shriek and howl, their leash undone
   A blinding flash across the...

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Caress the aching tears of 'morrows
it rains in regret's remembrances,
sustained of sand-like grit 'tween frothy
mimsy and mayhem endeavoring to
rise above the fray within prayer's favor mid
 escaped disconcertion of seeping hourglass sand,
weeping 'neath copious cloudbursts...

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Rain made no apologies to sun
as it satiated a whetted appetite,
opined it was the right of nature
unconditionally given dispensation
by Mother Earth's nurturing favor
of life-giving creative indulgences,
whereon flower's blooming accolades
truly know the opulence of its essence,
whilst aroused poet's inspired reveries
ever shine 'neath abundant cloudbursts


 Anyone who...

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Last year my garden 

                                      Bare and idle,

...

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