The Wednesday Poem

Deluge

Horizon sits dark,
a surging smudge of cloud.
A cold front moving fast,
streams in to shore over a pewter sea.
White rods are falling into water
fracturing surface,
sweeping over sand, over us,
stinging our faces
flooding our eyes
drenching us completely.

Running for shelter is futile.
Instead, we surrender laughing,
holding cupped hands to sky
catching drops in our mouths.
Inhibitions dissolved,
we dance to the wild rhythm
of pelting rain.
Exhilarated, fluid, transformed,
We are sleek soaked seals
cast up on a new cleansed shore

Veronica Lake

Veronica Lake is a Churchill Fellow, awarded in 2010 for the Study of Shakespeare. Her first poetry collection Dragonfly Wing, was published in 2019 by Sunline Press. Her poems have also been published in a number of journals. She lives by the sea and has need of it every day.

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