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Title:       Dave
Date:        2026-04-04
Link:        https://spool-five.com/poetry/2026_apr04_weather/
Word Count:  185
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> Finally, here’s today’s optional prompt. In his poem, “Spring Thunder,”
> Mark van Doren brings us a short, haunting evocation of weather and the
> change in seasons. Today, we’d like to challenge you to craft your own
> short poem that involves a weather phenomenon and some aspect of the
> season. Try using rhyme and keeping your lines of roughly even length.

Today's prompt is apt, since it is quite windy here in Ireland with
Storm Dave arriving.

Carry away the last of the cherry blossom leaves
Heave! Ho! Lift up the small debris. Watch in disbelief
As that one duck, scurries beneath hedgerow brambles
And some cat's tiny bell tingles and trembles

Tumbles against void of black fur. Great courage
Of old woman, bringing her recycling to storage
Where great bin lids flap up an down excitedly
Plastic wrappers, torn paper, all trying to get free.

Lift the pink petals higher, up above the dense
swirling clouds, where astronauts sit tensely

Halfway to the moon, and looking back they faced
Our storm, a brush stroke quickly forming, and quickly erased