Flash and Bash (poetry)

[Underground River]

Flash and Bash

A sudden sound
Breaks the stillness
I jump in fright
It must be thunder
I have languished in my own world for too long
I have forgotten about the outside world
I have let Nature slip from my thoughts
I am being awakened
The storm is approaching
The thunder is louder now
I feel much afraid now
I have no protection
Even though I have shelter
The wind will blow through my window
The thunder sound will come through the walls
The lightning will strike where it pleases
I cannot hide in the closet
It won't do any good
I can't hide in my mind either
The thunder will break into my thoughts
I cannot run from the lightning
It's faster than I can even think
I guess I must listen and be afraid then
As Nature has something to say
And she is going to say it
Whether or not I wish to hear it
And so I ask you, Earth Mother
Please don't strike me down.

Copyright by GreenDruid October 22, 2004.
I thought I'd post one last thing and go out of this competition with a little flash and bash.
GreenDruid

[Kat Lady]

Sweet Green Druid, this reminds me of my fear of thunder as a child. All that energy and magic in one loud crash and flash!

[Branbeith]

I like the thread that runs through the poem..Nature will not be forgotten or ignored. If one tries she will scold that individual. Beautifully said.

[Robb Hawklord]

GD, I could only read this fast, as if captured by that fear. It is wonderful, and I remember I had strange habit of hiding in the curtains when it Thundered and Lightened, I would climb on the window sill and wrap the curtain around me, I was off the floor and the lightening could see I was not in the house as it looked through the wimdows.

I also must thank you for tripping a switch to allow a memory to come through from behind the block that is on my early childhood.

Many thanks and congrats on a wonderful piece

Hawky