Out of the Blue

An unexpected thunderstorm.

An unexpected thunderstorm
affords us all surprise.
Storm flashbulbs set the eve aglow
as thunderclaps arise.

An aggregate of cumulus
provides for stormy night.
It bangs just like a big bass drum
accompanied by light.

All day behind a shining sun
it simply won’t intrude.
But now just like a bolt it comes
to snare the quietude.

Off to the south a flash ignites,
then sure enough a boom.
Another flash lights up the sky
as thunderclaps resume.

Between the walls of east and west
in active atmosphere,
a storm arrives quite suddenly--
acute to eye and ear.

Capricious is a thunderstorm
arriving in mid May.
The sky lit by the lightning bolts
appears in purple-gray.

24 Lines [Rhythm: 8-6-8-6]
Writer’s Cramp
May 16, 2014