A stalled monsoon trough over central Nepal
caused continuous torrential heavy rainfall
Slopes pushed up moisture from the Bay of Bengal
The catastrophe was looming large to befall.
Sudden breach of a moraine dam
Triggered Glacial Lake outburst floods
A surge of water and debris devastates
downstream, catching communities off guard.
Landslides continued to collapse slopes,
forming temporary dams that later burst
Steep valleys amplified runoff swift and fast
Flood of fury of all time unleashed the worst.
A compound climate disaster of twin sciences
Meteorology and geology to decipher in depth
monsoon extremes, unstable glaciers, terrain hazards
Perished hundreds of lives and left many homeless.
Sparse sensors, lack of predictive models a curse
Warrant real time glacial monitoring at source
With closely spaced weather station networks
And cross border early warning systems
…….Narayan Gadagkar
Matt sat upon the rooftop
as the rain came down
Below in the courtyard he heard
people moving round,
the thunder rolled with a fury
Such an earth shattering sound
Lightning flashed with equal terror
across the sky
The whole display was quite profound
By: J.N.R Dutton
Humorless green
Needlessly mean
Her eyes
A nightmare dream
Accusations
Loud but unspoken
Her eyes
Fury unbroken
Stripping my soul
Scorched to the bone
Her eyes
Will never atone
Withholding grace
Emerald trace
Her eyes
Morgue chilled embrace
The splendor of his mad mischief
fell asunder in Minab,
tarnishing his campaign beyond repair.
All malice is unleashed with a touch of morbidity.
His bombing campaign is sudden, fierce, swallows whole neighborhoods in seconds,
yet far below a just war, and a travesty of truth.
Nothing but unjust war reeking through the emperor's clothes.
Solution is just peace.
War stands in the shadow of thunder,
Peace moves quietly in the hush of dawn.
Each holds its shape—one broken, one whole—
Strangers tethered by a world’s longing.
Steel and silence share the same horizon,
But never truly touch.
A soldier in a field dreams of calm,
A child in a garden fears the storm.
They meet in history’s uneasy handshake,
Yet part ways in every heartbeat.
One builds walls, one tears them down,
Always circling, never joined.
Hannah bashed her dolls’s faces on concrete, ripping off Barbie dolls’ heads and cutting their hair so they looked ugly
She also killed little lizards on their yard. But nobody ever saw her doing those things and she always looked very calm and relaxed
Destructive emotions running in her head she was furious, very angry and mad
But having a perfect pretty face and blonde hair nobody could’ve ever imagined that she could do something so bad
Hanna had become very good at wearing her poker face to hide what was going on inside her head, turmoil and terror
She had practiced to smile for a long time in front of the mirror
Hanna had felt real rage starting to boil inside her when her abuser had found a girlfriend
How dare he replace her like that
It vexes me
I toss and turn
I cannot find the words to describe the beauty in sight
For I am a humble man of ink
New words have to be created to describe the fraction of the beauty that you are
But alas I do not hold such power
For I would have created a whole library
Just to describe your beauty, my love
Forgive me my love
For I cannot describe your beauty to the unfortunate who didn't see you
Else the Emperors would have cried and gave you their empires
Just for you to be at their funeral pyres
Some say Aphrodite cried the day the Titan made you
It broke her, it made her irate
She punished the Titan severe
But the Titan was rhapsodic for he knew he bested her
And so you came into this world
Amongst the quarrel of the Gods
Like a ray of light
In my empty life
The wind's violent surges,
And silent urges
write these defiant verses.
In the fury of today,
no one is here to stay.
So let’s fly far away.
You are so very far away
Like a lone star
In the endless desert of the cosmos
You burn in living fire
Pouring out a radiance
Brighter than the sun itself
Yet you are distant ...so distant
No human eye beholds you
No poet sings of your beauty
No weary soul is warmed by your light
Perhaps one day
You will burst like the stars
Shatter into flame
And bloom like a flower in the void
Epic Fury
The epic game
the epic toys
army daydreams
toys for boys
what happens when
the sandbox grows up
the bigger the wallet… the bigger the wallop
no checks no restraint and… zero hiccups
the brand the launch the video game
where we non-player characters
can dance around a petrol fuelled flame
The clouds turn black, a bruised and heavy sky
A sudden gust of wind takes the leaves up high
The animals scurry on as the birds start to fly
The rain starts to patter like a summer in July
A thunder breaks out like a crack of the whip
Lightning strikes close, it makes your heart skip
A flood slowly rises as the ceiling starts to drip
The roof’s about to collapse like a capsizing ship
The winds take turns howling in despair
The lawn decor’s getting tossed up in the air
The rain blows sideways as it cuts and it tears
Mother Nature throws a fit of elemental scares
The warm sun is gone, only gray clouds remain
The silent aftermath leaves only fear and the pain
The effects of a storm that ominously reigned
This tempest leaves its mark like a holy bloodstain
Feud Tyrannosaurus Techs spewed they must be Taurus
Their notorious own porous homegrown lewd chorus
On a heinous hardcore intravenous tour to floor us
Felling their telling of spoof truths pointless like Icarus
Fury jury swelling..no quelling now imbued enormous
Screwed slewed after being pursued...they deplore us
Mood brewed skewed by a crude & rude thesaurus
Be shrewd make sure this brood are booed eschewed
Moan their scary lairy tone or drone's prone to bore us
My heart aches of them,
My mind worries over them;
Their plight in cold breeze-
Fighting fitness to survive,
And still, troubled flood parades!
The vibrant world now rots and wanes,
in envious, burning, final pains.
Mother Nature’s Fury, It begins to rain
Rivers overflowing, roads begin to flood
Devastation everywhere as homes filled with mud
Loss of life and property, oh the heartfelt pain
Mother Nature’s fury, as the story goes
Wild winds begin to roar all across the land
City and towns ravished by deadly tornadoes
Loss of life and property we're dealt a lousy hand
Mother Nature’s fury, dark and gloomy clouds
Thunder booms, Lightning bolts flash
People stare in disbelief, all will cry out loud
God please bring and end to this, please don’t let it last
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