it's been said
that they "roll in"
like ocean waves
and they do
but before that happens
there is sometimes
complete calm
one can almost hear
butterfly songs
cross the way
then, in the time it takes a field mouse
to blink his innocent eye
the wind picks up
clouds roll
to a distant rumble
lightening bursts bright
as rain pelts down
on a dry land
by and by
tis calm
again
"A thunder-storm--the eloquence of heaven,
When every cloud is from its slumber riven,
Who hath not paused beneath its hollow groan,
And felt Omnipotence around him thrown?"
~Robert Montgomery, from The Omnipresence of the Deity
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