After the Storm: My Dance
After the Storm: My Dance
A Personal Reflection Amid Rain and Wind
Part of my dance-
Of rain, of wind, of storm.
Beneath these battered eaves,
With my heart still echoing the thunder,
I find joy in the hush-
The gentle peace that only comes
After my world is shaken clean
By rain,
By wind,
By storm.
Each thunderclap lingers in my bones,
The rain's cool fingers
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Categories:
weather, body, emotions, journey,
Form: Free verse
Imagination
Clouds of many forms, shifting in the sky,
Fading in and out, quietly passing by.
Seeing floating forms in full animation,
Requires a reset of mind’s vibration.
For one must look deeply beyond mere sight,
To see all the shapes in the dark and light.
Open channels of imagination,
Now you recognize the mind’s creation.
Cloud after cloud they begin to connect,
You still
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Categories:
weather, change, image, imagination, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Today is Hot
Today is hot; tomorrow, not.
This summer’s been like this a lot.
It’s tough to know which way to go
When making outdoor plans and so,
You must choose twice, that’s my advice,
For just one thought will not suffice.
A lovely hike, which you might like,
Won’t work if temps begin to spike
And pouring rain would be a pain
And cause
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Categories:
weather,
Form: Couplet
Breathless
Tentative steps beyond my front door
Ten or twelve at most, can’t go more
Not boldly either, but taken timidly
No match for the heat and
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Categories:
august, death, imagery, weather,
Form: Couplet
Bad Weather
Politicians are like weather
That is hanging for decades
Cap in hand we’re light as feather
In the storm that never fades
Who would need a politician
Their household to manage
Yet some do support ambitions
Of the mentally well damaged
Politicians are archaic
Sick to hear the master’s voice
All jack russells bark in panic
I would never make a choice
Choosing not myself
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Categories:
weather, political, satire,
Form: Rhyme
climate change
what comes tomorrow
leaves some elements of doubt
earths rain wind and fire
seems to dominate the skies
save for our eternal light
arctics melting ice
overflowing tropic isles
oceans
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Categories:
fire, rain, sun, weather,
Form: Tanka
strumenti seosiali
The warmth of the sun on a wintery day alarmed my my natural senses
it made way for me to to prepare in need to gather and prepare or make
ready might the storms of near spring shall find us. Sagacious we bought
meat to freeze and potatoes to store, we gathered onions garlic peppers and salt. We
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Categories:
weather, music,
Form: Ballad
Summer Is Not Lost
Nette Onclaud’s contest, Seasons Now and After,
August 11, 2025.
Autumn is here! some flowers still blooming,
but the first freeze is forecast in the news.
Gorgeous flowers face gardeners’ fuming;
every autumn we mourn the garden blues.
The next few days display the dreary glimpse
of what autumn’s coolness chose to unlock.
With sword-like sudden drop in autumn temps,
we find free
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Categories:
weather, 11th grade, autumn, summer,
Form: Other
Autumn
Autumn
….. is mortally wounded!
It stumbles, tumbles
across the silken, rouged sky
quivering over rusted hedges
shivering through shouldered trees,
splattering, smattering
everything in blood-red.
On it goes, on it flows
gasping and grasping
at clouds of bandages,
hobbling, wobbling
suffering deep gashes;
haemorrhaging life
in crimson splashes.
While winter;
with the sly smile
of an Arctic fox,
coldheartedly waits for autumn’s
shredded, dreaded last breath!
Ian Souter 2025
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Categories:
weather, autumn, imagery,
Form: Free verse
The Winds Of Spring
weeping willow trees
long limbs lashing and slashing
in the winds of spring
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Categories:
nature, spring, tree, weather,
Form: Haiku
Downpour
the lightning flashing
the booming of the thunder
torrential downpour
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Categories:
rain, weather,
Form: Haiku
The Killick Holds
The calendar showed January 1899,
there were only a few hours of real daylight
He set out in his poor man's boat, early dawn
Snow and ice did not melt until mid-May
The cold bit his face and hands,
he had to try to obtain some food on
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Categories:
weather, boat, fish, history, life,
Form: Free verse
AUTUMN IS NEAR
Can you feel something is about to change,
is it in the air everywhere you turn?
Much cooler mornings and nights are coming,
less sunshine each day for us to enjoy.
Days getting shorter with less time to play,
nights are getting longer with more darkness.
Trees are turning into pretty colors,
colorful leaves will soon be falling down.
Squirrels working very hard
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Categories:
weather, autumn, color, cool, fun,
Form: Other
The Lonesome Ballad of H2O
The Ballad of H2O (International Version)
He reached his boiling point at one hundred degrees.
When he dropped to zero, he would freeze.
Everything he did, he did just like he oughter,
(in Centigrade) - that's water!
The Ballad of H2O (US Version)
Arriving at two-twelve Fahrenheit,
his roiling bubbles gave steaming flight,
but descending South to thirty-two,
he froze in his
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Categories:
science, silly, water, weather,
Form: Rhyme
The Calm Before The Storm
dark clouds are forming
a smell of rain in the air
calm before the storm
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Categories:
weather, dark, rain, silence, storm,
Form: Senryu
Specific Types of Weather Poems
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