The scorched Earth like Savannah
Heat blown grass
Brown and tinder dry
Lies beneath a relentless blue sky
The vapid white mistt of cloud
Soon disappearing as the day wears on
This season is stuck in stasis
No respite from the summer sun
Then suddenly as a streak
Lightings orb wreaks havoc
A rippling bright bolt across the retinal blue
Accompanied by the screech and clap
Of thunders roll
Rain like water tipped
From a bucket palls
In waterfalls from the storm wrecked sky
Hammering the cracked and thirsty earth
Flood pools form and swarm
With streaming eyes
Then it stops.
The riven silver light warming to gold
As the last filligree of misty cloud passes on
Downpour ended
The season is broken
Cool air breathes in through the breach
Heat no longer clammy and jungle close
But fresh and dry breezes sooth the skin
Earth healed again
Joe Morriss
July 2018
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