Dramatis persona*

helenhead Helen Chick

I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"!

I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1!

* Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona.
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96. In the Storm [100 poems challenge]

 

96.          In the Storm

Roiling and swirling,
Rising and falling,
Gaining in power
Malevolent force.
Slow-building mounds
Of liquid momentum,
Tilting and tumbling
Rhythms irregular,
Pounding, propelling,
Surface in turmoil
Hurled hard against
The teacup’s white walls.

2 August 2013

 

Comments: I’m not totally convinced this succeeds, not least because I had to be careful not to overdo the “scale” of the waves and storm for most of the poem, otherwise the last line would have lacked continuity in comparison, but there still had to be enough storminess for the punch-line to give a jolt when it arrived.

Themes to come: 97. Safety First; 98. Puzzle; 99. Solitude; 100. Relaxation

Explanation about the 100 poems challenge here.

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