Gaze out to sea upon blown rig and sail
in our fright’s strand on stormwatch to the south,
heed the mighty whirlwind, its scything trail -
Galleon’s Passage to the Serpent’s Mouth.
See the bended trees on coconut row
when lightning fork flashing turns night to day -
let it sunder, let it rage, let it blow
across river and swamp in Cocos Bay.
When away are cattle jittery led
and heron, egret, crane, and frigate bird
take flight for cover when all else have fled
till a cockcrow at early dawn is heard.
When eerie is the billfish feeding ground
and missing are the pelicans stormbound.
Written: July 1996
Trinidad & Tobago.
Categories:
stormbound, home, nature, storm,
Form: Sonnet
High cloudy gloomy
Head; unseen; in wispy bars
Of skies; shaking rails
With closed-in thunder—
For miles. Lightning's bare fingers
Fall limp after so
Many strikes. Peak of
Sun— blue; cataract rims stung;
The rain sliding down
This dam in my soul;
It slams like me, my pain's pound—
Where I'm now stormbound.
Categories:
stormbound, care, deep, emotions, introspection,
Form: Haiku
Looking
Eye-Locking
Twinkling
Soul-tingling
Smiling
Sensually-laughing
Standing as though
Stormbound
Eye-lids
Ashamed of closing
Composing
Volumes of poems
Within split moments
Of their unknown meet
Wherefrom they left
Forgetting to receive back
Their hearts
That unknowingly
Got transferred
Into the other...
13 June 2021
Categories:
stormbound, love,
Form: Free verse