the scent of clouds about to burst (sensuality of the skies)

By anathema

humidity
makes the air
sticky
with coming rain

the breeze
crisp
and scented
sharply
with lightning
brushes my air
away from my face
gently

it caresses me
like
a just-awakening lover

i welcome it
with eyes
that shine
with a strange
excitement

perhaps
my blood
crackles
with the slashes of light
that shatter the darkening heavens
and rip the clouds

maybe
my heart
screams
along with the feral beat
of otherworldly drums

i taste the heat of the sun
the blue
of the summer sky
and the sensuality
of the rain
that pounds
hard
fierce
and heavy
on so many fields
and forests
who lets their dry soil
beckon
coquettishly
until at last
the earth is wet
warm
and ready
to bloom

all this
fills my soul
with energy
and passion

first drops
begin to fall
i laugh
with joy
and wonder
open my arms
and embrace
the world

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Copyright 2003 *anathema*
Published on Wednesday, September 10, 2003.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • A former member wrote: Great work. Makes me long for summer rains as I'm holed up in the dreary dampness of a late Fall. A reminder that we are electrical beings viscerally connected to nature.

  • BlackOrchid8168 On Wednesday, December 5, 2012, BlackOrchid8168 (2)By person wrote:

    I love this a lot! Full of visual senses! :)

  • A former member wrote: Every time the grace of the sun sinks through my skin and fills me with warmth, every time the lightning sends thunder through my veins, every time the sun leaves it's splendid goodbye across my world, I wonder... if perhaps my lovers are echoes of this.

  • MercyRain On Monday, October 13, 2003, MercyRain (105)By person wrote:

    that and the winds just before the storm, that billowing, embrace you in the tendrils... feeling the wind wrap around you, feel you, all the way into your core like

  • MercyRain On Monday, October 13, 2003, MercyRain (105)By person wrote:

    the physical edges of your body are momentarily irrelevant... i never feel more alive than at the onset of a storm... and so beautifuly put, i know you know what i mean

  • Stranger On Thursday, September 25, 2003, Stranger (264)By person wrote:

    I think this is one of my favs from you. " who lets their dry soil / beckon / coquettishly", that is simply genius. I can feel the thirst of the soil. Just awesome.

  • A former member wrote: That first smell of a storm about to let loose the rain, is like smelling the perfume of a sexy woman walking towards you, she then passes like an erotic storm. Leaving me soaking wet!

  • KittyStryker On Thursday, September 11, 2003, KittyStryker (711)By person wrote:

    ::giggles:: i heart you markus

  • SalemLex On Thursday, September 11, 2003, SalemLex (25)By person wrote:

    Very nice. While reading I thought i felt a rain drop.

  • manywalks On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, manywalks (750)By person wrote:

    The scent of ozone can be so stimulating. ~ mw

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