A poem inspired by recent weather.
(Image description: A photo of a person in a dark, hooded cloak, pants and boots. The figure is holding up a red lantern and is standing in a field of tall, brown grass. Trees are in the background with an overcast and foggy sky.) Credit: Photo by GRAHAM MANSFIELD on Unsplash
A Glimpse of a Windy Spring Day
With spring’s stride
winds bluster and swirl
Leaves shining in emerald and jade
A thousand shards filled with light
Currents combing their fingers
through the swaying pine boughs
Airy travelers through realms
liminal nomads over land, sky, and sea
Gusts in a hurry
as the ferrymen of storms
Northerly and southerly winds
combine in a torrent of blows
The gentle, rumbling approach
of thunder and rain on the horizon
Then fiercely turns as
Pounding and rushing gales
Whispered prayers for protection
the four-armed cross ‘tween my fingers
Her sacred mantle encircling my home
my hearth enwrapped by Her care
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