WAR CLOUDS

fighting in a different way

 

 WAR CLOUDS

 

 

 

Clouds electrify

I blink with clear blue tears

As they traverse east with haste

Over a dark, restless ocean

Threadbare with fear

Of what is to become

 

As clouds impend over foreign soil

They fabricate into smokey hazes

Transform into coal ash

Laden with paramount bravery and anger

they eyeball fire and soot

Surge from the scorched earth

 

Shadows stunned by chaos

Strewn bodies in dark gray pits

Rain clears the mystery of dried blood corpses

Tempestuous clouds implore the rain spirit

To cast stinging poison pellets of ice

As a means to blind the nemesis

 

Once their toil is complete

Vigorous winds shift to the west

Jolts them across a mud green sea

Wherein they settle into puffed up masses

Of calm

And ease over a peaceful universe

 

 

 

 

 

 

Author's Note

thank you for reading!

Reviews

[John the Baptist]

Heavy imagery here, taken straight from current headlines. The second and third stanzas sound like scenes from Dante's hell, but they reflect what is happening in Ukraine now. We are thankful for the final stanza, which gives us hope for the restoration of peace. May those winds start blowing soon.

[Betty Hermelee]

Thanks John, yes what a human tragedy!
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B.

[Chris Shaw]

If only the clouds were doing the fighting. What is coming out of Ukraine gets worse by the day. Your description Betty of the cloud movement is so creative. There is real power in your chosen words. We are all praying for this conflict to end, but I think Putin has other ideas. All the best to you dear poet.

Chris

[Betty Hermelee]

Thank you dear Chris for a spot on review!
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B.