Best Thunderstorm Poems

The grandeur of a majestic mountain
standing proud against the horizon
with its snow-capped peak
enveloped in fleecy white clouds
against a clear azure blue sky

The glorious majesty of a stately sequoia
towering above the surrounding vegetation
being the largest living thing on earth
its massive trunk over thirty feet wide
with its...

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august thunderstorm
lightshow on the horizon
~ grumbling ovations



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Submitted on June 27, 2021 for contest SUMMER HAIKU sponsored by TANIA KITCHIN - RANKED 3RD...

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The Thunderstorm


The angry sky stained dark each cloud,
   as somber streaks of lightning flashed.
      The shake of thunder then avowed
their storm makes entrance unabashed.

Then somber colors deeper grew
   as clouds swirled rapidly on high.  
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Once I was in a metal row boat on a lake
Along came a sudden, fierce thunder storm
I was stuck on the other side
In this boat with a friend
The lightening started coming down all around
From sky to water, as the thunder rolled

We paddled as fast as...

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The gods are bowling,
Zeus throws a lightening bolt;
Thus, a thunderstorm....

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dark sky spits fury 
water pounds relentlessly 
summer heat broken...

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nature calls the tune
sticks of white on drums of cloud
arrogant mankind




July 4th 2015. 02:45a.m,(in the middle of a storm)...

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When the rainy gloomy day
From the gray clouds weaves the arch,
When the heaven of lead acid in the silence
Floating to us vast object,

When the foliage discolor,
And the cries of birds can be heard barely,
And thousands of hums seas
Denunciations from the heavens stronger,

When the winds are...

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Treacherous drops, millions all at one time, 
High and low, ferociously banging on tin rooftops 
Unifying into ponds in deep crevices of grime, 
Never ceasing to flood the farmers field of crops
Drenching everything in sight from daytime to nighttime 
Eventually culminating with ferocious roars over...

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sulfur curdles nose
wind from eerie flute playing
thunder, lightning, rain...

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the whole world is happening at the same time
every conversation, every bird call, every lion roar
every everything bunched up to oneness in my head
I carry the white noise of distance wherever I go
I am an out of tune radio coursing through debris
and tin whistle high...

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yellow light 
tinge to the air ...
crickets fall silent...

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For an hour
Cicadas saw at the early August evening
While thunder purrs as kittens
In the yarn of dark clouds balled up out west over Ionia County

Trees prepare their umbrellas
The Tigers on TV swing away in the 3rd inning
A good book in hand

Then out of hand
A den...

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Sudden Shower
by Michael R. Burch

The day’s eyes were blue
until you appeared
and they wept at your beauty.

This is a poem you’re welcome to share, if you like it, as long as you credit me as the author. It could be a nice “rainy day” poem, pardon...

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Something about a thunderstorm
that takes my thoughts beyond the norm,
as up above in other worlds-
a battle in the skies unfurls.

Those thunder booms, like cannons roar
and growl as dark clouds clash in war,
then send explosions through the sky,
as lightning sparks the battle cry. 

How deafening a...

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