Silent Thunder
My voice set me free...
I was the silence for what felt like ages.
Silence amid your earthquakes that threatened to cave our world in.
Silence, drowning out the howling wind of your wrath.
Silence, like an empty cave, echoing back only what you wanted to hear.
Like ice melting, dripping slowly, softly from the stalactites…
Constant dripping in darkness.
Not quite dead, but mostly still,
Wondering why nothing felt alive except creeping things, haunting the silence.
Hush, hush…no creeping allowed, no living allowed in the silence.
In the dark, how could you have seen?
The dripping was filling the chambered pool, and the spring was rising.
The swelling couldn’t be contained much longer and then,
I was the thunder, taking over the sky.
Thunderous, rushing rapids washing over cavernous walls,
Thundering, sweeping away the mold and guano of the sticky cavern walls.
Thunder, not creeping or crawling,
Overcoming the silence of the echo chamber,
Couldn’t hear what you wanted me to say anymore.
Couldn’t feel what you want me to feel anymore.
Couldn’t fear the darkness anymore.
Only heard my own voice then, and it thundered.
It was time for that good kind of storm.
Bursting into the light came the rushing waterfall.
Falling from the open cave into a clear as crystal forest pool
Falling on the green things and the swimming things and bathing things
Falling like a fresh rain of clarity, nourishing the life that depends on this spring,
Feeling the light like it was the first time.
Making the ground tremble, but not an earthquake.
Droplets scattering rainbows across everything in the path.
And the waterfall isn’t quiet, but the forest is still.
There is only the good kind of thunder,
the good kind of dripping,
the good kind of hush on the breeze in the trees,
and the best-ever kind of silence:
The silence of peace.
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Comments (43)
Beautifully written. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Poetry has power and yours clearly has it. From the imagery to the voice to the tone. I cheered for the thunder when it came! Well done!
Awesome imagery
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Awesome poem! Absolutely loved it! :)
Congratulations on top story! Good story
Wow - just makes me want to go bush! (that is a good thing!!!)
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Powerful stuff, Holly! Really well done. Congrats on a well earned Top Story!
Congratulations on Top story! Beautiful and very earnest. Peace is something that we all need ❤️
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Beautiful craftwork and expressive poetry. 🥰. Congrats on Top Story🥇
The poem beautifully captures the transformation of silence from suffocating and oppressive to peaceful and nourishing, using vivid metaphors of a cavern and a waterfall.
Congratulations on being featured as a Top Story, quite deserving! ❤️
Awesome ✨ Congratulations 🎉
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Congratulations, 🎉 Very moving
Fabulous. Congrats on the Top Story.
Congratulations!! So happy to see this one here!
So atmospheric, Congratulations on your Top STory
This piece of writing is beautifully descriptive and Congrats on Top Story much deserved!
Wow! This is so awesome and powerful. Thank you so much for sharing this! And congrats on the Top Story!
Congratulations on Top Story!!
Great work