Thunderstorm

Ominous clouds in downcast sky
Lightning flashes, thunderclaps
Reverberate, as rain clouds cry
Falling rain, round us, wraps

Rattling harsh, the window pane
Fighting to get within
The howling wind, amid the rain
Raises one raucous din

Endless raindrops splash and splatter
Drenching the drowning street
Spraying mists of real fine water
On bare and covered feet

Sodden flowers, nodding their heads
Trees, with their wide boughs bent
Soaking all, as the cloudburst spreads
Violent, without relent

Raging torrents, down mountainside
Rumbling, wild and free
Swollen rivers and sea collide
In choppy estuary