Stone Soup Magazine
Photograph of young writer

From the January/February 2009 issue

The Storm

Brilliant splashes of yellow light
Spewing all corners of the earth
With a radiant glow of scarlet

Then darkness
A shield of gray

Then the rains
Pounding relentlessly
On the cold
Damp
Ground

The wind
Slowly growing
With every passing second

A clap of thunder
Vibrating the water-drenched ground

Then peace
The storm retreats.