Best Derecho Poems

Spanish verse

DERECHO DE VENIR A TU CORAZÓN

Estoy viniendo, viniendo de la mujer de Dios;
Vengo para usted con todo el poder de que Dios puede reunir;
Viniendo de usted y no otra;
Vengo justo en su corazón;
Y cuando tus lágrimas;
Voy a secar
Cuando te enfrentas a frunce el ceño;
Voy...

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It started with a news report,
where a well-dressed man did exhort
that everyone should stay inside,
big thunderstorms were on the fly.
A curving arc across the map,
and the danger that comes with that,
not whirling clouds that rip and roar,
but another threat is in store,
The great tornados go...

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the derecho

    winds whipping cruelly
   beautiful old oak uproots
               ***
     calm after the storm...

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The first text warning that the approaching storm
Is nothing like we’ve ever experienced before
Is dismissed as it will surely lose steam
Before it reaches us, 
Two hundred miles to the east.

Soon more texts, closer to home, 
Friends warning of homes and barnes destroyed,
Cars and semis overturned,
Fields...

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