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Captain_Kuchiki
12-18-2009, 06:17 PM
Tempest Roar

Huddle up tighter, draw your cloak about you
Bury your face in the cloth as the winds pick up
Your two eyes watch in fear as the storm envelopes you
Pressing against your tiny shelter.

Eyes squeezed shut as the gale buffets you
A rumble like a beast of lore fills your ears and vibrates in your gut
An all-consuming maw opens wide
Before the tiny you.

Heavy rain drums and pours
Icy needles everywhere, soaking you
Flash of lightning as thunder rumbles
In the tempest roar.

Draw yourself tighter, good child, and be brave
The floods rise, the lightning is near
The jaws of the storm threaten to snap closed and end you.

But you're stronger than that.


As you huddle, the winds die down
One eye opens to watch the floods sink away
And the jaws close, the ethereal dark teeth fading away
And the sun shines again, weakly, then stronger.

You stand up slowly, your limbs cold and weak
But the spring that awaits you is a different story
Throwing back your cloak, the damp spring air fills your lungs as birds chirp and green grass waves
Courtesy of the rains and the tempest roar.

You smile, your eyes' fear replaced by joy
Spring draws you close in its eternal beauty
The parched land had to have its rains to bring the blossoms
And you, good child, must survive the tempest roar if you want the spring to come.

Buh4Bee
12-18-2009, 06:27 PM
This is a sweet poem and makes me think of my own sadness at the lack of sun in the winter. Comforting. I thought you were worried about your writing?

Captain_Kuchiki
12-18-2009, 06:38 PM
Well I wrote that poem one day after remembering when I saw all the praise other poems got and how my high school poetry assignments got "meh" reactions from my teacher, and I thought that I couldn't get past that point. I'm hoping to prove my other poem wrong and defy the voice in my head that tells me "you can't write good poetry like the other guys." ;)

Buh4Bee
12-18-2009, 07:57 PM
What do teachers know anyway?

Captain_Kuchiki
12-18-2009, 08:03 PM
Ha ha yeah, this particular teacher would rave one especially good student and then compare all the other students to them and inadvertantly make them feel bad. It bugged me then, but I now have the world to compare myself against. It'll be an interesting trip from high school!