Month: Apr 2023
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30 April: A-to-Z Challenge
Z is for ZL You feel an icy danceof blades on your face, intense as a matador’sfixed gaze on a bull. And trees are loud asangels’ horns in the wind. It’s a shattering touch,winter’s frozen drizzle. For A-Z Challenge. ZL: the abbreviation for Freezing Drizzle. Written for the A-to-Z Challenge. Declared theme for the challenge…
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29 April: A-to-Z Challenge
Y is for Yellow Snow In golden waves, and in your eyes.A blinding language. This pollen, is a Midas fog. From pines, drifting on winter’s last snow. But the boy’s three, and everything’s about wee and pee. A-Z Challenge. Yellow Snow: Snow given a golden or yellow appearance by the presence in it of pine,…
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28 April: A-to-Z Challenge
X is for an X-Ray Burst Not stars nor moon,it’s a pinprick of sun.Its negativity pulls at your core. Invisible.Blistering.A lightning scar. And the air itches with calamity. For A-Z Challenge. X-Ray Burst: In solar-terrestrial terms, a temporary enhancement of the X-ray emission of the sun. The time-intensity profile of soft X-ray bursts is similar…
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27 April: A-to-Z Challenge
W is for Wintry White dovesWaiting in the apple treeWhile snow falls It’s apple on the table weather, so the tree understands expectations. For A-Z Challenge. Wintry: when a low pressure system produces a combination of winter weather (snow, freezing rain, sleet, etc.) that present a hazard, but does not meet warning criteria. Written for…
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26 April: A-to-Z Challenge
V is for Virga And too soon she’s gone.A wisp. Taken flight throughan open door. Her voice as a memory lingers.It’s as if she’d fallen from a cloud,and evaporated. For A-Z Challenge. Virga: Streaks or wisps of precipitation falling from a cloud but evaporating before reaching the ground. Written for the A-to-Z Challenge. Declared theme…
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25 April: A-to-Z Challenge
U is for Updraft (Cumulus Clouds) And those cloudspoured their grief on us, while Mama’s saying,Look up and see the face of God, and we were a little less afraidof drowning after that. For A-Z Challenge. Updraft: A small-scale current of rising air. If the air is sufficiently moist, then the moisture condenses to become…
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24 April: A-to-Z Challenge
T is for Thunderstorm Do ants stop, as I do,and listen to distant thunder roll. Do they lift their feet on hot sand. Do they know that come Julythey’ll sprout wings and fly. Do ants’ eyes narrow when lightning strikes. For A-Z Challenge. Thunderstorm: A local storm produced by a cumulonimbus cloud and accompanied by…
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22 April: A-to-Z Challenge
S is for Showers A crocus, the colour of mist,glistening andunfolding into sunlight,scented pink as hairspray. It’s she can’t dance weather, so she pulls the blinds. For A-Z Challenge. Showers: A descriptor, SH, used to qualify precipitation characterized by the suddenness with which they start and stop, by the rapid changes of intensity, and usually…
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21 April: A-to-Z Challenge
R is for Rain Clouds read like tea leaves.Heavy and dark as a monk’s robe.And the rain begins. The rain. I watch it fallin thick strokes of ink. All night.Wild rain.I close my eyes. And hope to sleep. For A-Z Challenge. Rain: Precipitation that falls to earth in drops more than 0.5 mm in diameter.…
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20 April: A-to-Z Challenge
Q is for Quality of Snow This snow is a decrescendo,it stops you cold in a shiver as the sun sits low and patient at the top of the hill. It’s simple-minded weatherfor throwing snowballs in hell. For A-Z Challenge. Quality of Snow is the amount of ice in a snow sample expressed as a…
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