Thunderstorms, sky-grace-flowers

In the spring when the tide of renewal flows over me, I feel re-embedded in wholeness. The sweet spirit of being-filled-from-within by sky-grace-flowers

cleanses the drive from me. I have laid down the calendar book, which was a metronome over a cliff.

Tonight thunderstorms loom and the sky greens in spring heat. I hope for the fire that is brighter even than magnolia blossoms, something to mark the path to stars and planets. A jagged walkway, sudden, liminal, luminal, stark. Instead of parking, we wander in the city thrum twilight. Even though there are no storms tonight, the promise of illumination keeps me moving, hoping, breathing.

April 2012

lightning (not St. Nick)
came
       d
         0
             w
               n
the
   chimney

lit the hearth

backed the cat back
whiskers singed
            o
              n
                t
                 o
the Turkish carpet
          of
golden corn sprouting.

lightning

brain  storm

in this inferno capped by skull

all the singeing singing clatter

of me shaking one grey fungal mat

of mycorrhizal dendrites

mold on fire

shaking  moon 

trees of in

sight

found in the cracks

from the magnificent
boulder, dangling down
into prismatic
       flashing sky space
the plumbing air root--
while wriggling in mineral tissue
the fractal tree trades
textures one molecule at a spin

gathering (I)

Aren't we only part physical beings manifesting on this phenomenological plane

much like gathering clouds gathering gathering?

one moment 

not visible but then impending 

even dooming threatening

gathering gathering gathering 

air particles enciting

dust tickling heat rising and falling

wrolling rolling growling

 

catalyzing (II) 

 

What is it that sparks

the quick as lightning

manifestation

(spirit, truth,

seeing

?)

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t o u   c    h    i     n   g       d   o   w    n  (III)

fast in s e e i n g fast in experiencing yet this phys i cal
ground takes in   materializes   the spirit that is us  such
that sl o wing happens connections between molecules
creating solid masses  s e e mingly solid simply excited
particles  some how re lating in their mutual ex ci tation
bonding  familiarizing  con-fusing temporarily  merging
attributes creating aggregates of like-minded  light  and
pony shows giving eachofus some thing to riderideride
to lay down at somepoint where the natural return(s) to

thatwhichInitially catalyzes such arisings fanfare sweet
birth of moisture and dust  ~  that which is seen/unseen

Prompt: Lightning

Write like lightning. Write fast. Write to sizzle to a single singeing point. Illuminate. Arc and zag. Come quick and leave fast. Take all the breath in the room and light up the dark, then return to darkness. Boom and holler, then be silence. This is the poem of lightning.

Keywords: poem, lightning, [poet's moniker]

Note Uranus is the planet of lightning, is in Aries. Lightning is being born, lightning is on fire.

Image credit: Science Daily (2008, March 28). "Bolts of Blue Lightning and other Weird Lightning Explained."