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a tempest for the almanac

The evening stars were gone, replaced
by a spreading, ominous purple bruise of cloud.
When the wind rose, in sudden violent
crisscrossing gusts, everything went into motion.

White cabanas shook, like staked swans
flapping to fly, lavender bushes thrashed
their thorny arms as if in panic, umbrella pines
creaked and writhed like tethered balloons.

Lightning lit the winding, stony stairs, like ornamental
neon lights,

Categories: tempests, holiday, humor, rain, storm,
Form: Free verse

Springs Tempests

In early spring some years ago,
I awoke to a shocking scene,
for angry winds chose to blow
across my lovely lawn of green.

Through the window I did see,
scattered across my whole front lawn,
my gutter covers had been freed,
from the gutters that they'd been on.

Then I looked at the neighborhood,
scanned all up and down my road,
boxes, plastic, pieces

Categories: tempests, poems, poetry, seasons, spring,
Form: Sonnet

Untouched By Tempests

A drug crazed world spins on ever faster.
Bodies tumble out of that carousel
never to be seen again.
Once whirling dervishes twirled
now they stagger and fall drunkenly.
Molestation hangs in the air
drooling its perilous lava.
All control is folly,

and yet...

this morning
I sip at a mug of Columbian
one hand to pick up a casino bought fob watch,
I let its fake

Categories: tempests, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Of Squalls and Tempests

You begin to see yourself
as being shaped by oceanic-waves.
Dressed in the muscle and fiber of restless storms.

A swish of a garment,
the high hem of a skirt pulls you into her flesh.
Sex remakes you into something you do not recognize.

A storm propels you,
a womb once pushed you,
into a tabular rasa, just so all the elements
of fire,

Categories: tempests, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Tentative Tempests

Why must I beg pardon? 
Has been our great question;
When you and I battle,
Vessels at home rattle; 

I say yes; you say no,
Matters so silly though;
I swear; you swear; sourly,
Dogs and cats laugh wholly...

You are old; I am old,
Our looks have turned ice-cold;
Ego, yet, like a spring,
In us, plays monarch-swing...

When we ask each other,
At end

Categories: tempests, life, love,
Form: Rhyme

Life's Tempests

We ride the waves of innocence
on the ocean of The Now

From the depths of dank
the evil stalks our bow

It's little that we can do
to keep all our decks so clear

For in our minds as we list each way
the demons are right here

Storms rage from time to time,
yes they come and go

When the next one pops

Categories: tempests, boat, evil, innocence, ocean,
Form: Couplet

Tempests In Teapots

I'm not out to change my world
or yours,
but I do believe we are in this world together
to refine our collective regenerate health status,
to resolve our climate therapies
for healthier economies
and politics of mind and body ecologies.

I am thinking of not even being in any more
for those who only have a yearn for climate change,
as this is

Categories: tempests, change, culture, health, political,
Form: Political Verse

Tempests That Eat Upon Stony Shores

Tempests That Eat Upon Stony Shores


There lay hidden- shadows in a great storm
tempest that eats upon this stony shore.
Night hiding devils wrecking such great harm
destroying in our hearts we most adore!

Waves crash into massive rocks that so shield
playgrounds of ivory sanded beaches.
Harsh winds beating the flowers in bright field
all are savaged as its darkness reaches!

Memories

Categories: tempests, beach, conflict, death, earth,
Form: Sonnet

Tempests May Come

I'm weaker than you
And just as frightened.
I have cowed and hoarded
While you braved harsh years
Holding back nothing.

Your pilgrimage cannot be appropriated or diluted
You journey to please No One but your Gods.
You understood from fledgling human connaissance
Your body and extended Body are but vessels
That They may guide your soul.

I don't know how to help you
And in

Categories: tempests, appreciation, city, faith, god,
Form: Free verse

Tempests

Destructiveness is what was left for me
To pick through the pieces of misery, love, and fear
You led me astray to that path
Where your arches opened under a veil of disguises 
Where darkness took me far away from myself
Left, was an empty shell of a beautiful soul
A serene spirit in the eye of a storm
Who succumbed

Categories: tempests, allegory, dark, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Raptured Tempests

Verbose crystalled tears bestride
Flaring high on ornately veined clouds

Racking thunderclaps fracture the horizon
Protesting the abdication of daylight

Here the morose summer showers weep 
In heavy erosion washing yesterdays pains

An ascending dusk pursues the mislay moon
Lost in the felled bodies chafing the steely skies

Phantoms murmur atop flamed winged steeds
Dancing on the peaks of the worlds rooftop

Tombs satiated

Categories: tempests, imagination, time, visionary,
Form: Couplet