Short Hailstones Poems

Piercing winds whistle
Hailstones clobber window panes
Cat stretches and purrs...

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Hailstones punctuate
the narrative of life with
an exclamation.

This just came to me in the night...

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Hailstones
Haiku: by Tom
1/12/2021

The size of hailstones
remain inconsequential,
until striking earth.
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Rainbows
Complement
A Summer storm
Life giving rain, beware -
Hailstones

5-8-19:
Contest: Writing Challenge 1 Cinqku - May 2019
Sponsor: Dear Heart...

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have flat head
to receive hailstones

grow big chest
to carry rocks

borrow rubber feet 
to step on thorns

possess stitched mouth 
to sing in silence...

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Walking on hailstones
I see you: a smile, a ‘Hi’
Dancing on diamonds


7 February 2021
Contest: Valentine’s Senryu
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin

[My own poetic license sees ‘Diamonds’ as two syllables.]...

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#1

Hailstones pour -

other side of the leaf

saving himself a spider  .



#2

Draped in snow  -

steamy breath when sun kisses 

the rock statue is alive  .

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Your voice like smoke,
 it calls from the distance

Luring your enemy into
 winds of deceit

The clouds of your fathers,
hiding hailstones above

Disguising the truth
—as you lie in wait

(Devil’s Tower Wyoming: September, 1990)...

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dark clouds
looming

thunder
booming

torrents
pouring

strong winds 
roaring 

lightning 
flashing 

hailstones
crashing

big limbs
swaying

scared folks
praying


February 16, 2023
written for the Brian Strand You Select Again Contest    Placed 5th...

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A hurricane of stimulation,
  a tornado of thought

Blowing through the vast unknowing,
  our natures to be caught

When doubt sits high on light’s horizon,
  storm warnings there portend

Whose cyclones of enlightenment
  —with hailstones shape and bend

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)...

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The greatest of men
  he bled the truth,
  his wounds for all to share

A symbol relived
  a life unspoiled,
  courage all too rare

The towering hawk
  the thundering storm,
  hailstones mark the way

A moment in time
  a vision embraced
   —his name the children pray

(Plane From Detroit: August 21, 2018)...

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Winter has crept in like a beautiful bride!
Awesome in beauty! Yet, in shame, she does hide! 
Her bridal gown is snow-white, graceful, and pure!
Yet, how long will she wear it - she's not so sure!
When hailstones and chill winds leave her heart shattered,
Won't her charm, like flowers in storms, get tattered...?

06 November 2021...

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Listen to poem:

The Handy Work of God
David J Walker

I call them my flowers

	as if
They were really mine
	
As if I really 
Owned the earth 

	as if I could
Make the sun shine

	as if  could 
call down the rain

	as if I could refrain
 the storms angry hailstones

	As if
I were anything more 
Than the gardener 

Admiring the handy work
	of God...

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Crying’s not for me, so the singer intones
As raindrops, unlike hailstones, fall on his head*
The issue, perhaps, is no more than hormones,
And he is hanging on by the thinnest of thread
His catchy tune makes a memorable ringtone
For the cellphone alarm lying next to my bed. 

Written July 12, 2022
[*with apologies to B. J. Thomas]...

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Suddendly everything is still.
Hailstones lay on the path
and in clumps along the garden
edges like frozen spawn
left by storm clouds now 
dying into the distances
of the evening.

The light is muted, the cold, 
soundless air hangs breathless
in the trees as if waiting
for the clouds offspring 
to hatch and float them off
into the arms of the night....

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Hailstones on the mat
A feral Tom cat lingers
Doors that never shut

As hailstones strafe junk mail and mat
Where feral is the alley cat
On one hinge hangs
The door that bangs
And he ain’t going out in that

The feral cat whilst oftentimes homeless, is, it seems, at no time gormless




26 January 2022
Contest: Charlie Hai-Lim-Ku poetry contest
Sponsor: Charles Messina...

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The sky is like a funeral pyre

In clouds above the night's on fire

My ears perceive the thunder's call

While angry raindrops fiercely fall

There's hailstones mixed within the rain

That's pelting now my window pane

And while the storm does slowly creep

It makes it hard for me to sleep

But thankfully the coming morn

At last a new day now is born

I cast my eyes up to the light

With not an angry cloud in sight...

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ELEMENTS of DOUBT.

    Storms growing restless, impatiently squall.
    As thunderbolts rake, grey cloud leaden skies,
    Raindrops and hailstones, released to freefall.
    Shrieking winds screech, Armageddon's war cries.
    Summer lies bleeding, enslaved by it all.
    With flora and fauna, striving to rise,
    Nature survives, to enthral us again.
    Time's a great healer, when sunshine soothes pain.

          8 / 27 / 2017....

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