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, August 03, 2018

"stormkeeping"

The distant flash behind my back
this dead of night makes shadow plays
upon the fleeing clouds that ghost
so grey between the stars
in soft array.

We none of us can hear
the thunder break itself
from where we are.

This storm-thrown light on candlesmoke
is all we have to know, so far.

Unworrying, the clouds fly
running off, away, and safe -
while I can only half-assume

the storm is dragging after them
its heavy wings, to sweep the sky.

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