Best Thunderclouds Poems

She kept it all inside her
and never spoke a word,
though her thoughts flew and darted
like a trapped and frantic bird.

Inside her was a garden
that was...

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My thoughts are like thunderclouds

         Thoughts that collide and give worthless words

     ...

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thunderclouds
shrouding the grave 
my falling tears

03~30~16
13 syllables or less contest sponsored by Timothy Hicks...

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The first time I painted the old red barn

I was twenty years old and the skies were blue.


There it sat in the middle of the...

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Fields of stars blanket warm summer skies
Songs of crickets and cicadas overwhelm the senses
In reply, fireflies dot the lawn
Full of dandelions and buttercups waiting for...

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The earlier sky of blue is gone,
storm clouds gather in the sky.
There'll be a storm before the dawn.
The wind picks up, scattered leaves fly.

The trees...

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A gust of wind swirls rustling the morning;
scent lingers of oncoming summer rain.
Thunderclouds loomed with ominous warning,
lighting brightens black distance sky again.
Gray, damp, creeping closer,...

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Contest:  Trilonette Contest		Sponsor: Joseph May		6-21-23
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River of Clouds

Lazy mists dawdle through valleys,
Wending in a river of clouds,
Surfs deep dales on rising tides.

Silver curly-cue veils dally
On...

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October thunderclouds looming in the horizon

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Prayers descend like acid rain from 
oligarch-soaked manchurians, stumping 
for elected office, praising hybrid 
demigods, passing out vouchers to the 
peasants.

A slow rumbling-
 part of...

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Marshmallow puffs in gingerbread dreams;
mobile skiffs sail cerulean streams.
And tethered to invisible ropes,
ferry wishes across madcap hopes.

As turquoise flows into aqua seas,
chameleon vapors morph with...

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The lights of the city reflecting from the aqueous pitch, pavements in a kaleidoscope of colours create a melancholy ambience for the few who venture...

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I'm the thunder that makes you tremble
And the rain upon your cheeks
When the storm rides upon you
As the air boils and simmers
Puddles turn to lakes
And...

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Dark thunderclouds hover uneasily 
over the red mesas and arroyos. 
I can feel the tingling sensation of
charged air, an unnatural quiet
as the thick, humid air...

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i watch the sunrise
unbuttoning the stuffed pouches
of thunderclouds

soaking
imagination
with dry-drunk dewdrops
becoming bubbles
blown through
ringbarked
jewelry

worn 
by the roots 
of rhinestone rapids
growing in
spider
webs

trying to catch
a flying_fox

there has always 
been...

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