Poets United Midweek Motif ~ Stormy Weather

Storm Ending         by Jean Toomer (1922) Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers, Rumbling in the wind, Stretching clappers to strike our ears . . . Full-lipped flowers Bitten by the sun Bleeding rain Dripping rain like golden honey— And the sweet earth flying from the thunder. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stormy_weather_(1).jpg

Midweek Motif ~ Stormy Weather

The motif running through this week's poems is "stormy weather."  Do you have in mind a specific storm or human condition?  

Or do you, like me, go right to the Harold Arlen song Stormy Weather (1933) and jazz and love?  

My poem below is 4 haiku strung together; Jean Toomer's poem above is free verse.   You could also write a stormy song.

Apply a 55-word limit.  If you can.  

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Storm by Susan Chast 

Since you went away 

pittering and pattering

raining all the time 

Since you went away

thundering and thirsting

clouds oppose the sun 

Since you went away

matchmakers and matches

storm in to light my fire 

Since you went away

spitting and sparking 

still my fire won't start

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(Next week's motif will be Melody)

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Poets United Mid-Week Motif ~ Love

 “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, 

         in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” 

― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets 

Today’s motif:  Love

What did love seem to be at age 16?  And now?  Let your mind swirl through the years of your life, and pick One Age to speak from in Fourteen Lines. 

This could be a sonnet or any form or non-form you wish.  If you decide to write a ballad, the fourteen lines do not apply.

(If romantic love is not on your mind and Valentine's Day seems far away, consider the month of February and its significance in your life.)  

Here's a ballad by Sonia Sanchez:

Ballad

  by Sonia Sanchez

         (after the spanish)

forgive me if i laugh

you are so sure of love

you are so young

and i too old to learn of love.

the rain exploding

in the air is love

the grass excreting her

green wax is love

and stones remembering

past steps is love …

- See the rest at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19520

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