When lightning strikes where should you be,
Under your bed, before the storm?
Dark clouds will warn, vacate your boat
Take cover before lightning strikes
Get out of water, that's not safe
Don't stand beside a window glass
Scary thunder follows the strike
After the light, no help at all
Rain is sure to follow, stay dry
under cover, worst is over
Our troubles can be lightning's strike
Dark clouds will warn, not thunder's claps
Troubles can come before we act
Big ruckus comes after the strike
People will point, gossip abounds
True friends will stay, comfort in grief
Doctors of kind will be your help
Medicine, shrinks, and lawyers they
Take your meds, follow doctor's say
Lightning is over, peace returns
[click on a picture for viewing it up closer]
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Photos and Poem Copyright © 2008 and 2015 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved-I am linked with Marian
, both for Day 14 of National Poem Writing Month
The passing of a storm.. If we just wait there is an afterwards of being safe.. Maybe there's a lesson there.
ReplyDeleteA really cool poem on Lightening :D
ReplyDeleteOur troubles can be lightning's strike
Dark clouds will warn, not thunder's claps
This was genius! To make a comparison between our life's troubles affected by a storm that strikes thunder & lightening... dark storm clouds have always been a symbol of trouble & peril :D
Loved it!
Have a great day ahead :)
I like the structure of this poem - great advice here, both philosophical and lyrical.
ReplyDeleteI have always loved thunder storms, Jim. I just love the show. Good write.
ReplyDeleteGreat ending and it is true, we all have to weather a few storms~ I enjoyed this one, a lot!
ReplyDeleteHonestly--hard to know who to trust (or where) when lightning strikes. I think lawyers can be your advocate, for sure (being one) but still, well, be careful! A sweetness here throughout. k.
ReplyDeleteNicely evoked, both literally and figuratively. (But has 'lightening' with that meaning gone into the dictionary already? It's so very widespread, particularly, it seems, amongst Americans, that if it hasn't I suppose it soon will. Living language and all that. I still prefer 'lightning' - which, oddly enough, you have given it as, once. Was the correct version a typo, lol?)
ReplyDeleteI knew that, Rosemary, but I got lost arguing with the Microsoft spell checker. When I had another error it fixed to lightening or else I missed the first choice.
ReplyDeleteAnyway I pronounced it right for my syllable count. But I knew the proper spelling too, didn't use it.
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I'm glad you knew that! :) Thanks for not minding me pointing it out. So many people don't seem to know it. Spell checkers do terrible things even to the best of spellers and grammarians.
ReplyDeleteOh, and yes, pronunciation counts! :)
ReplyDeleteLove you, Jim, and appreciate your comments on mine.
I'm also one of those thunder storm lovers ~~~ well maybe the gentle version. Makes for great sleeping, don't you think?
ReplyDeleteI'd like for it to storm and rain here, where it's dry ~
ReplyDeleteyes; nice poem; at the end of the storm a new day, but the honesty of your poems details the gap in between so nicely, ending with that really good last line; i love the rainbow photo too
ReplyDeletethanks for dropping in to read mine
much love...
A tempest... take cover till it passes, then clean up.
ReplyDeleteI like the comparison of nature's storms to our own life storms. Good advice for either here. Really good, Jim
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