lightning rips the sky
clouds part to reveal sunlight
mending the broken
This haiku is my response to RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge #257,
where the prompt words are rip and mend.
Image source: unsplash.com / Daniel Páscoa (edited here)
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Lightning strikes in the night,
and blankets pull tighter, wrapping a dream
of daylight, where fear is framed within
crisp shadows, with a clarity that remains
on waking and late into the day,
the threat of storm long forgotten, yet
the uneasiness easily remembered.
This is my response to The Secret Keeper’s Weekly Writing Prompt #170,
with the words late, storm, frame, strike & wrap.
Image source: pixabay.com – member/skeeze (edited here)
With sudden dark
Summer’s storms announce their intent
With sudden dark
While the clouds send us livid sparks
Lightning strikes, and when they relent
They leave us, all energy spent,
With sudden dark
Jane Dougherty’s Poetry Challenge #45: Summer storm is to write a rondolet inspired by her photo and using the theme summer storm.
Rondolet ~ 7 lines with 2 rhymes – AbAabbA
~ the refrain has 4 syllables.
~ the other lines have 8 syllables
a flash of lightning-
passing through the darkness
a night heron’s scream
© Basho (1644-1694)
clap of thunder in the night
music of rainfall on leaves
This is my response to Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge #103, write two lines to follow a given hokku, essentially creating a tanka.
Image source: rpseeds.co.uk
static sensation
as lightning suddenly strikes
rain soon to follow
The two word prompts for RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge #96 are lightning and rain.
Photo source: The Telegraph
Act I: backlit clouds
brilliant flashes, silhouettes
prelude to a storm
Act II: drip, drop, drip
spattering scattered pattern
rain shower begins
Act III: lightning bolts
terror in a thund’rous crash
a mighty deluge
final curtain call
clouds part to reveal the stars
Nature’s passion play
The two word prompts for RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge #89, are shower and play.
Image source: Joel Sartore/National Geographic
night sky’s jagged strokes
ominous clouds in backlight
brilliant raindrops dance
clouds in silhouette
staccato lightning flashes
raindrops dance at night
lightning in the night
staccato flash, raindrops dance
brilliance in darkness
The two word prompts for RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge #86 are flash and dance.
Image source: 7art-screensavers.com
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