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Lightning Poems - Poems about Lightning

When Thunder Follows Lightning
The air hangs heavy, still, a silent shroud, Before a tremor cuts through the waiting crowd. A distant crack, a sharp and sudden tear, And then the rumble drawing ever near. The speed of sound, a constant measured pace, A finite journey through time and empty space. Yet in that limit, paradox resides, A delayed witness to what fate provides. The lightning flashes,...

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Categories: lightning, nature, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Playing Tag With Thunder
Lightning flashes so brightly outside; rain's falling fast and furious. Feeling vibrations in my fingers jolts loosen the window pane. Delightful, but frightful, quivers follow. Mummy shudders, shoulders and head; Sissy covers up her ears. I'm deaf, my other senses eagerly expect something after sparks. I wait and faces change. Like a sudden tag game, I see the brilliant flashes. Sissy tags me, "You're IT!" I can guess...

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Categories: lightning, 11th grade, rain,
Form: Rhyme



The Thunder Rolls
The thunder rolls as the sky flashes bright. The clouds roll in as the lightning strikes. The children all tucked in snug in their bed, as mom walks away, "I'm scared", they all said. You hear that sound, she says, the thunder rolling, Do not be afraid, for it's only God and his angels bowling. But the lightning, they cry, it's...

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Categories: lightning, child, childhood, god, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
A Silent Thunder
The dark clouds pur, And there's nothing but blur. While the cool breeze whispers , The thunder awaits to strike. The grass murmurs, A big storm is coming. And the lightning has struck, The thunder awaits to strike. On a quiet full moon night, The cricket are chirping. A cloud bursts into droplets of water, The thunder awaits to strike Water is gushing down the gutters, A...

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Categories: lightning, 10th grade, africa, cool,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lightning
I traveled 50 miles, To listen to the screams of skies, And to feel the pounding of droplets, As the sky showed me its demise. In its fury it banished the stars, And under the lighting it poured. The pain it evoked showed the scars - That its rolling thunder had scored. I fled before it arrived, A beauty too destructive to meet. But it...

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Categories: lightning, abuse, adventure, beauty, home,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Untitled
there once was a lightening bug named Doug who fell in to a foamy Guiness Stout mug tried to call for help by glowing green and yellow but alas for poor Doug a burly young fellow downed Doug the lightening bug with one chug ...

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Categories: lightning, humor,
Form: Limerick
Soul Storm
Do not listen for me in wind whispers Or echoes down the lane, My spirit would never settle For such quiet and mundane. I won't be found in soft starlight Or twinkles on velvet snow, Toward things quiet and serene Isn't where my soul would go. Not among sleepy night forests Or captive in the lyrics of a song, Amidst the tranquil and...

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Categories: lightning, bereavement, death, eulogy, meaningful,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Lightning Bolts and All That Stuff
~ A Lighthearted Look at Cheating on Keeping Kosher ~ Pick my poison, shrimp or pork closed my eyes, lowered my fork I’d hankered for that suckling pig ...

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Categories: lightning, food, humor, jewish, storm,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Lightning McQueen
Cloudy sky Freezing temps Winter tires With a grip Enter the curve Hit the ice Start to slide to the right Foot off the brake Jerk the wheel Not to the left But hard to the right You have only a second No second chance To stay on the road And not crash Sometimes the opposite Saves our life Even when it Doesn’t feel right ...

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Categories: lightning, car, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - Haiku X 338 - lightning -
saber is sharpened ...

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Categories: lightning, nature, power,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Amazed by lightning and Starman
As a young kid, watching monsoon rains was fun, Sometimes enjoy the rain and get wet, sometimes run paper boats till they drown in the deluge, Never thinking of thunder and lightning, till parents warned. On one such ominous occasion, When dark clouds were raining with lightning flashes, One fell and hit a lamp post...

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Categories: lightning, stars,
Form: Free verse
Storm approaching
Dark thick clouds roll in Lightning, thunder, and hail stones Run to the basement. ...

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Categories: lightning, dark, sky, storm,
Form: Haiku
Hurricane
The wind, a howling beast, whips through the trees, Woooosh, whoosh, whoosh, an angry symphony. The rain, a drummer wild, pounds on the tin, Pitter-patter, splash, bang, the storm begins. The waves, like angry horses, rear and churn, Crash, boom, roar, against the shore they burn. The thunder, a giant's roar, shakes the ground, Crack, boom, rumble, fear's deep sound. The lightning, a...

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Categories: lightning, rain, storm, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member you will get hit by lightning
my husband rushes to warn me about the storm coming I already know! The dogs and I have run outside. My arms are outspread. I am dancing; they are jumping, excited. drops of cold rain are coming down into my eyes, because my head is raised, my mouth is open. a storm! I scream to my husband! A real storm! I...

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Categories: lightning, storm,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Broken Lamp
I broke my vintage Holland lamp this morning Just accidentally, when I went To water the balcony flowers, With a watering can in my right hand And with my left hand I pulled the curtain down too hard And my poor lamp fell off the speaker, A big Tannoy speaker where it was standing. The dimmed glass lampshade was shattered But...

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Categories: lightning, light,
Form: Free verse

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