MY ATTEMPT AT WRITING POETRY: THE TEMPEST

Published by New Worlds Unlimited in Treasures of the Precious Moments in 1985.                                                                                   

                                     THE TEMPEST

Lost,

In a torrent of storm and power

A delicate finger fondles the earth’s surface,

Extends from a dark gray womb reaching out,

Caressing,

Tearing with the force of a lover lost in ecstasy,

A mighty machine borne of cloud and air

Spending itself on the unsuspecting earth,

I watch,

A distant viewer of a mystical force,

Amazed at the beauty death’s angel has summoned,

Amazed at the power unleashed before my eyes,

Distance masks the fury, the rage of storms,

Distance masks the horror of life’s reality.