Danger in the Night Avoided

 

I was too late to enter this contest but it prompted a poem anyway

Thursday Picture Prompt with Marie

07-20-23 through 07-23-23

Paula Shene

Title: Danger In the Night Avoided(Acrostic Poem)

Darkness shrouds the whipping,

Actions of the branches as a violent 

Nor'easter lashes copious 

Gusts of wind and water ends the quiet

Evening into a dash for candles and

Rush of closing windows.

In the candle drawer, all is found

Needing feel and knowledge as a

Thunderous boom and vibration 

Hurl, piling the items into the back

End, breaking matches, still usable.

Nonetheless, all prepared, peering out windows.

Investigation shows a tree uprooted, not tightly

Grasped by older trees surrounding yet to

Heaven's protection is given thanks.

The traction slant would kill if at the computer.

Averted by falling south, not westward

Virgin tree, 

Only twenty-five,

In the yard, the youngest not knotted

Deeply with its surrounding trees

Even at odds with nature, should have shoved 

Down North, but it fell into the wind, Praise God.

~PLS/PCS~ 23.7.2023

The tree survived through the summer and fall and then was severed from its stump, left four feet tall, and is growing again but in a more straight upright manner.

The tree limbs and its trunk all have made their way into wooded crafts made by my third son and his family.

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