After The Drought Poem by Cheryl Griffith

After The Drought



Then the rain came; crystal bullets penetrating dry clay;
Rattling fragile rooftops pouring out a noisy silence.
Among the grass a puppy bleeds;
Crying out to his mother; he screams
His pleading voice drowned by the noisy silence
As he lies there dying.
Young squirrels and rabbits struck with fear,
Seek refuge between some trees motionless,
As though guarding the black silence that surrounds
And threatens to engulf all who listen.
The rain surges and rumbles;
With every fiery strike and thunder clap
The earth shakes and trembles
The trees sway and murmur, rooted in their anger,
With leave-like hands slapping furiously at the wind;
And wrestling against the beating of the rain
Which seems to fall forever.
Mute birds tired of repeating yesterday's terror, huddle together in the recess of their corners;
Heads turned from the world facing each other.
Fishes float up-turned in a small pool in the hollows
There emerges a faint mist tracing its way upwards,
To caress the chipped feet of a martyr
Whose main achievement; was to die too soon.
The darkness forms fully
The long black night begins
Still, by the lake a young girl waits,
Hunch under a wrecked shed
Watching with horror, the violent down pouring,
And listening to the silences.

Monday, July 7, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: nature
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
The narrative 'After the Drought' shows extremities, the drought being one extreme and the blessing of the rain which came to end the drought, as in 'crystal bullets penetrating dry clay'. The rain became an extreme bringing such heavy showers resembling that of a storm. It shows that extremities can take place even in something good like rain, and how it can affect everything around. I actually got the idea and wrote this based on a scene from a movie I saw.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Chuy Amante 08 July 2014

Very nice! I liked the feel of the extremes A+++

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Cheryl Griffith

Cheryl Griffith

San Fernando Trinidad and Tobago
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