Searching in a Storm

A couple years ago, I was learning a piece on the piano by Liszt, and it inspired me to write this poem. This piece sounded so stormy to me, but it had another quality - a "searching" quality. So I entitled my poem: "Searching in a Storm."

This last spring I took this picture before a storm hit. There was a tornado warning (what's new ;), but I went outside because the sky looked so pretty. I took this picture with my iPhone :)

Searching in a Storm

Oh look and see the path ahead,

Winding far from me.

Oh where it goes the Lord alone

Knowingly can see.

But darkness gathers overhead,

Lightning strikes the sky.

A crack of thunder starts the storm,

Crying out on high.

The rain escapes from angry clouds.

Rushing wind controls.

The atmosphere so dark and dim

Penetrates our souls.

I cannot see the pathway, but

Blindingly go on.

Until “Crash, Boom!” the storm is o’er.

Suddenly it’s gone.

Lydia Morie

I was happy to get this poem published in the June, 2016 issue of Nature Friend Magazine. If you would like to watch the piece that inspired this poem, click here: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiP6Lbr2ebUAhUo_IMKHTOZDs0QtwIINDAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DnvvPX1QihUc&usg=AFQjCNFzEzOETRTKxIRWbEyowsHouKajCw