One Stormy Night – 2013 posting

(Just a silly little verse, written during one of our recent thunder storms.)

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Said Lightning to the thunder,

I am in charge of you!

You haven’t any color

but I’m electric blue.

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Said Thunder to the lightning,

I’m the one they hear.

You’re just a random fork of light

but I inspire fear.

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Said Lightning to the thunder,

I turn night time into day,

I’ll crack my whip and sheet the sky

while you just roll away.

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Said Thunder to the lightning,

‘t is I that moves the air.

You’re just a ziggy-zaggy flash

but I give earth a scare.

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Said Lightning to the thunder,

watch me – I’ll make a flame

by striking every target,

but thunder has no aim.

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Then from the ground rose Fire

writhing towards the sky,

I am master here now,

both of you can say goodbye.

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But just in time came Rain, who cried:

this land is all my own.         

I’m putting out your careless fire

now go – leave Earth alone.

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And still they argued back and forth

till Wind came out to play.

He laughed and roared with wild delight

and blew the storm away.

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© 2013, 2016  Betty Hayes Albright

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