Stormy Serenity
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Taylyn Birch, Grade 9, Kings Christian College
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Poetry
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2021
3rd in the 'The Write Note 2021' competition
The opera of the skies perturbs those below,
Embracing all in its vociferous melody.
Diagonal sheets of rain cascade; merciless; unforgiving.
Like the fragile limbs of the frail and feeble,
Trees writhe and flounder.
And with futile efforts to resist,
The squall carries them away with their groans of agony-
Nothing more than ammunition within the gale.
However, as the livid, bruised clouds begin to dwindle,
The pure, azure sky engulfs the land in serenity.
Eruptions of emerald green envelope the terrain-
Carpets of luxuriant nature.
The rain traces sweet paths through those in need,
Through those starving bodies, sucked of their nourishing liquids.
And a band of colour hangs in the sky,
Declaring new liberty, to those who don’t grieve,
Declaring new liberty, to those who believe.