Elsa

Jerry Reynolds

 

From the tropics she came
with a roar, dark and prolonged,
sketching herself with rain
playing her squally song
on roof-tops and windowpanes.

  • Author: Jerry Reynolds (Offline Offline)
  • Published: July 9th, 2021 06:42
  • Category: Nature
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  • Doggerel Dave

    'Tropical Storm Elsa, which brought heavy rain and high winds to parts of Florida and Georgia, moved into the Carolinas on Thursday and is forecast to race northward up the East Coast over the next few days'.
    - This one Jerry?

    • Jerry Reynolds

      Yep. Raining sideways at the moment.
      Thanks, Dave.

      • Doggerel Dave

        Next time your PR manager position becomes vacant Jerry, please place my name on the shortlist......😊

      • myself and me

        A nature disaster we have to live with.

        • Jerry Reynolds

          Thanks, M.M.
          Beautiful in it's way.

        • Neville


          For a microsecond, I thought this little nugget was about Elsa the lion of Born Free fame .. but then it hit me .. and all was revealed ..

          this is so much better than a tale of a big pussycat being returned to the wild .. this is indeed art 🙂

          • Jerry Reynolds

            Thanks, Neville.
            Storms are like toxic loves.
            Scary but beautiful.

          • SureshG

            Words that pay homage to one of nature’s strengths

            • Jerry Reynolds

              Thanks, M.S.
              They are scary, but beautiful as well.

            • Fay Slimm.

              Strangely enough I thought like Neville about the poem's subject - -
              - but as I never knew you had such chaos from Elsa's high winds and rain my thoughts go out to you Jerry and all those suffering from her lion-like mighty roars.

              • Jerry Reynolds

                Thanks, Fay.
                A twist I never expected.
                “Tempest or Gale” would expand the audience.

              • Goldfinch60

                Nature will never be tamed.

                Andy

                • Jerry Reynolds

                  Fencing with yourself, with knitting needles.



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