Tranquility

 

Thanks to Donna for this beautiful graphic.  Below is a poem:

 

Tranquility

 

 

The azure eastern sky

 

 

quickens, crackles with an

 

 

insidious storm,

 

 

yet over the pool,

 

 

dazzling sun.

 

 

Inching into pristine water,

 

 

I climb aboard the raft.

 

 

Penetrating heat

 

 

crisps, bronzes my flesh,

 

 

and recharges batteries gone weak…

 

 

Drifting in circles,

 

 

my hand idly swishes

 

 

to and fro,

 

 

to and fro,

 

 

to and fro…

 

 

As minute ripples

 

 

break the crystalline surface,

 

 

ballooning cumulus

 

 

rumble, boom,

 

 

rumble, boom,

 

 

rumble, rumble, boom!

 

 

Unrelenting intruders

 

 

threatening deferral of

 

 

a tranquil moment in time.

 

 

They burgeon,

 

 

and strain,

 

 

till they burst from within…

 

 

Until then,

 

 

till they come,

 

 

I’ll be here.

 

 

By Michelle Close Mills.