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Stormy Words

June 10, 2014
By StormChaserGirl01 BRONZE, Winter Park, Florida
StormChaserGirl01 BRONZE, Winter Park, Florida
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Favorite Quote:
"Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened." -Dr. Seuss


The grey clouds come sweeping in

In dark and twisted shapes and forms

Forms that mold and melt in the same second

Second comes the booming thunder after the white-hot lightning

Lightning is brought along with this storm

Storm winds as powerful as locomotives themselves race across the plains

Plains tremble with the pure power and crumble with the rain

Rain hits the raw earth and it emits a scent like none other

Other storms are not like this

This one is special

Special clouds known as scud skirt across the bottom of the cell swooping down low and peaking up high

High cumulus nimbus tower at forty-five-thousand feet in the sky

Sky was always blue but it now looks as if it will stay silvery black forever

Forever the rain pours on and the wind howls and the thunder and lightning crashes

Crashes against other meaningless storms

Storms that only help add on to the growing mesocyclone

Mesocyclone some call it but a monster by few

Few tints of green and blue glare down on the world from the dark blanket

Blanket is associated with warmth and comfort

Comfort and not heaps of atmospheric twisted metal

Metal that is sharp and can slice through obstacles in mere seconds

Seconds only if enough power is contained in each blow

Blow by blow the storm rages on

On to only God knows where

Where will the storm go once it vanishes

Vanishes into nothing but some toppled trees and frightened children

Children that ask their mothers why the sky is angry

Angry with a violence only known as Mother Nature

Mother Nature is evidently seen in storms like these

These storms are not only little spurts of rain and wind but rather creatures that will level buildings and destroy lives

Lives of many despise her when she does unleash her power

Power that people wish to tame out of fear

Fear is a weakness for all that leads to these kinds of wishes

Wishes that never seem to consider Mother Nature’s actual beauty

Beauty sometimes can only be defined by the pure power seen in weather that is stormy

Stormy words are how I describe this beauty.


The author's comments:
I've always loved storm chasing and writing, so I thought, "Why not combine the two?"

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