Then Quickly Gone

May 3, 2012 at 4:08 pm · Filed under Poems, Random Thoughts ·Tagged author, Charles L. Mashburn, http://dversepoets.com/2012/05/03/formforall-clarian-sonnets/, lightning, rain, the angry storm, thunder

I’m not a poet in the sense I know what I’m doing, and I don’t often attempt to write in any certain form or structure. That said, the prompt, Form For All: Clarian Sonnets, offered up by Samuel Peralta this afternoon intrigued me enough to give it a whirl. I’m hoping what I’ve done is create a Clarion Sonnet!

Then Quickly Gone

Distant clouds mumble on a day yet to dawn

Dark as night and the sun seems forever gone

Flash of light then a snarling angry sound

Storm marches ‘cross the hills and shakes the ground

Wind howls as a lightning flash lights my face

Sunlight peeks then deep darkness in its place

Giant storm upon us, sputtering huge drops fall

Lightning ripping clouds, answers thunder’s call

On it rages, thrashing all in its path

Daring tree or man to withstand its wrath

Then quickly gone, leaving soft gentle rain

As sun chases giant t’ward northern plain

Drops glitter on grass stroked by sighing wind

From the north, storm snarls, I’ll soon come again

 

Copyright © 2011 C. Mashburn

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