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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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19 April: A-to-Z Challenge
P is for Phreatic Water Underfoot, flowing stony calm,this young glittering water, risingthrough earth,through the rooted deep, like a dark scarexploding. It’s trout in the creek weather, and crayfish in the mud. For A-Z Challenge. Phreatic Water: In hydrologic terms, water within the earth that supplies wells and springs; water in the zone of saturation…
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18 April: A-to-Z Challenge
O is for Outflow On the dark side of clouds, curledby sky, it heaves and roars,a flow of cold on a storm’s edge.It rumbles beneath, and then reels. It’s find some batteries weather. The clock has stopped. For A-Z Challenge. Outflow: Air that flows outward from a thunderstorm. Written for the A-to-Z Challenge. Declared theme…
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17 April: Announcement
A brief reprieve I take. To Denmark. To Denmark.Small though it is, big.So until month’s end when I shall return, farvel for nu. Note: A-Z Weather Challenge posts are schedule for daily publication, but I’ll not be replying to comments. AI Digital Artwork is created using Midjourney. Imagery and poems ©Misky 2023 Shared on Twitter…
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17 April: A-to-Z Challenge
N is for Northern Lights (aurora borealis) The north sky bends in waves.Silent fireworks. Cotton bloom.A thoughtful mood, its curtainhangs above homeless snow. It’s candy-colour butterfly weather, and the air’s filled with praise. For A-Z Challenge. Northern Lights: Common name for Aurora Borealis; the luminous, radiant emission from the upper atmosphere over middle and high…
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15 April: A-to-Z Challenge
M is for Magnetic Storm Starlings on a length of winda far off thunder under their wingsis pulled into confusion. It’s erotic prose weather, but she’s thinking sausage rolls. For A-Z Challenge. Magnetic Storm: a geomagnetic and/or cosmic storm associated with a solar flare. Written for the A-to-Z Challenge. Declared theme for the challenge is…
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15 April: Raspberry Music – The Woman on Tuesdays
The Woman Who Sings on Tuesdays One eye is a puddle,the other is the colour of smoke,her voice, raspy, soprano if she’s sober,and wrinkly like a quiver aftershe’s drowned her years in gin. Her name is the same asmy friend’s, who says we’re sistersby different mothers, and if my fatherwere alive, he’d certainly dispute that.So…
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14 April: A-to-Z Challenge
L is for Lightning From a hearth of seared lightattuned to bare stoney earth,from the sky’s broken edgeit speaks from another world. It’s obscure words weather, like amicy. For A-Z Challenge. Lightning: (abbrev. LTNG) A visible electrical discharge produced by a thunderstorm. The discharge may occur within or between clouds, between the cloud and air,…
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14 April: for Ragtag Daily Prompts
Music Ripe as Raspberries A cigar, he says, is like narration, it sets the scene, and he’s playing his fiddle as if it’s a woman, fingers an insatiable eternal hunger, and the air’s upbeat with scratchy voices, words fast and a finger-width apart, and his teeth, the colour of walnutand chrome, gnash on that cigar…
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