Wednesday, 28 September 2022

CÉVENOL STORM: MY NEW POEM ABOUT A STORM OVER THE CÉVENNES ON 21ST SEPTEMBER 2022...

 Cévenol Storm…



The Cévennes range disappeared

From view, erased by pallid, dank cloud,

Before light rain ushered in humid, breathless

Air, as daunting fractures of lightning flickered

And a slate-grey sky hovered low.

Cloud forms then swirled and turned within themselves

To hurl heavy rain from spindly wisps, restless,

Until Thor’s hammer thundered blows, frighteningly loud

And irritated tendrils were sucked into the spineless

Shroud, which hurled its anger and bickered,

Whilst the misted Cévennes mountains huddled, afeared…


Pete Ray

28th September 2022





A long storm on Wednesday 14th September 2022, as seen from Boisson, Gard, France, looking towards the Cévennes mountains…




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