White hot lightning
flashes through the blinds,
a celestial photographer
illuminating crumpled sheets
twisted with the lack of sleep.
Fiddling with volume control,
clouds amplify and dull
thunder’s rock and roll,
rattling roof tiles and wooden
blinds like xylophones.
Beside the bed, a glass of tepid
water whirlpools with vibrations.
Kim M. Russell, 30th July 2019
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics: Hot time in ye ole pub tonight! also linked to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Tuesday Platform
Lillian is our host for this week’s Poetics. She’s been thinking about the word ‘temperature’ and how she’s related to that word across continents, moods and years.
Our poems for today’s poetics should relate to the word temperature. No need to include the word in our poems – but we must be able to easily figure out how poems relate to the word ‘temperature’.
writing in north norfolk 
Oh Kim…..this includes the idea of temperature so well….and also includes some excellent auditory words as well. I especiall love the glass of tepid water turning into a whirlpool from the vibrations. So much great imagery here….I’m in the middle of a summer night’s storm!
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Thank you, Lill! We’ve had a few raucous storms recently. Today it’s been hot and windy, with a fairly cool evening so hopefully I’ll get some sleep.
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I love the idea of a ‘a celestial photographer’ Kim! I hope you’re all keeping safe and dry in the thunderstorms xxx
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Thank you, Xenia! xxx This evening is windy and much cooler.
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Ooh, I like this. Those vibrations in the water glass! And the xylophone blinds 🙂
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Thanks Jane! David had to get up and somehow jam the blinds – or was it jam with the blinds! 🙂
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Ha ha! I don’t know what kind of a household you run but it sounds like fun 🙂
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🙂
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Nice! We frequently have thunder boomers in the summer, in the extreme heat, here. I like that the tepid water vibrates with the vibrations of the thunder. Sometimes I think the thunder will cause our little brick house to shimmy shake itself to death.
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At the end of last week it felt as if the storm was sitting on our roof!
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I bet it did!
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I do like a summer storm. I like the way this one shakes everything, from the water to the writer.
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We had two in close succession and I loved every minute! However, there is always the fear of being struck – it’s happened twice since we’ve been here, with damage to TV and computer on both occasions. I switch everything off when a storm’s coming.
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Oh yes. Gets the kids off the WiFi 😉
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🙂
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❤ the celestial photographer and the volume controls on the thunder and all the rest too. Great stuff, Kim.
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Thank you, Jade! 🙂
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You are welcome, Kim 🙂
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I like the celestial photographer sending all that lightning.
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Thank you, Frank.
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Poor Babies !!! People tell me in the mornings of the storms of the nights. I never hear them, I sleep through. But I know this well told scene, especially on hearing from from a light sleeper granddaughter.
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I love a good storm, Jim! I couldn’t sleep through one.
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I love a good summer sun 🖤
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Thanks!
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I loved “…thunder’s rock and roll rattling roof tiles”… rrrreally rrrrolls off the tongue! Cool poem Kim! 🙂
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Thank you so much, Rob! 🙂
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I love your vivid thunder storm!
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Thanks Dwight!
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Love this
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Thank you!
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celestial photographer is so interesting!!!
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🙂
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Great description of the storm.
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Thank you!
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Delightfully if frightfully etched — loved the photogravure of “rumpled sheets / twisted with the lack of sleep.” Great voltage here, and where there’s sparks …
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Cheers Brendan!
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kaykuala
Those vibrations gave a picture of a struggle to unravel some dark secrets that it developed
Hank
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This was positively electrified, Kim.
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Thank you so much, De.
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Mother Nature sure knows how to put on a light show. I love that little bit about how the storm was strong enough to get a reaction from normally still waters.
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Thank you, Rommy.
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