A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

Friday, May 25, 2018

explanatory power

The gods were born
in the first white flash
of a lightning strike, and clothed

in the crash of thunder upon
the virgin ears

of the man and the woman

who had appeared
in the lee of the storm.

They were spared the brunt
this time, but they couldn't imagine
what force, what fury directed
its downward stroke

all at once, flash BOOM

...was it Greek? Or Norse?

But neither of those
were invented yet. There
was no one left
over rain-soaked plain
but the mighty abyss,
the howling void -

and neither could face such a thing

again

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