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The Storm

By zion613 | Posted: 01 May 2009

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This was my first experiment with free verse. I was watching the storm through a window, so I heard the thunder, but not the rain.
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Sway, sway shadow-trees
Stark on cobalt sky
With iron shield covered
And droplet-arrows fierce upon the leaves

Dark though yet day
Eerie glows the gray
And silence...such silence...

Now comes Heaven's wrath -
Lightning flailing, thunder wailing,
wind galing over the shadow-trees!

Then silence, all at once

And Heaven's wrath

spent

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Comments 
JD Higginson
01 May 2009
Great job Zion. Good use of imagery. I can see you've drawn on your experience of experimenting with Haiku's in the concise way you've relayed the information.

Only one small point, though. In the third verse if you meant lightning as electrical discharge as opposed to lightening as in brightening the sky then you've spelt it wrong.

Other than that, great piece.

Poetry is definately your forte.

JD
JD Higginson
01 May 2009
Possibly change it for leaves instead?

JD
zion613
01 May 2009
Thanks, guys. I'll correct the spelling error. Also, I thought I liked it with the repetition, but I like 'leaves' better.

Happy writing! ;)
JD Higginson
01 May 2009
Each to their own, Zion. If you like shadow-trees then keep it that way.

The repitition is something that I know I often miss and am still finding in my 3rd draft edit of my novel but if it was intentional and you like it then keep it in.

It's your work and you've got to be happy with it.

JD
zion613
01 May 2009
Thanks, JD. I really do like it better, though. I originally had it as 'Neptune's breath fierce upon the shadow-trees,' but as I''m an Orthodox Jew, I wasn't really comfortable with that, so I changed it to 'droplet-arrows'. 'Leaves' does sound much better with that -otherwise, too many syllables.

;)
Michel Henri
01 May 2009
I love you work with words.
excellent

Michel Henri
poppy101
01 May 2009
oooh great atmosphere.  I think it flows very well and personnally free verse is my favourite because nothing feels forced trying to fit into certain patterns.
Reiner
03 May 2009
I'm not usually appreciative of free verse, but I like the imagery in this; nice choice of words.

Reiner.

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