In his poem, “Spring Thunder,” Mark van Doren brings us a short, haunting evocation of weather and the change in seasons. Today, we’d like to challenge you to craft your own short poem that involves a weather phenomenon and some aspect of the season. Try using rhyme and keeping your lines of roughly even length.
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This feels so layered, the way everyday weather blends with that underlying fear is really striking. (I really like how this moves between the ordinary and the unsettling... never quite letting the reader feel safe.) The lines about not knowing whether it’s a storm or something far worse hit especially hard. And that ending with the rose feels fragile, but still quietly defiant.
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Reading this alongside my own Day 4 piece, which leans more into the aftermath (what we’re leaving behind for the next generation) it almost feels like your poem captures the moment just before that realization fully lands. That uneasy awareness, where disruption is still half-explained away as “unseasonal,” but something deeper is clearly breaking through. Mine sits in the consequences; yours lingers in that charged present where we’re still watching, still hoping it’s just weather.
There’s something powerful in that contrast... the hesitation before acceptance versus the weight that follows.
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ReplyDeleteDread Darts between the lines, spring Dances and flirts throughout. Hope, Disguised in a rose... YAM xx
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DeleteHope turns tantric - wow...I almost want to steal that line!!!! I totally ignored the rhyming requirement in my attempt - kudos to you for sticking to the prompt!!!!
ReplyDeleteCheers Rajani. High praise indeed if you, the eminent poetess, is tempted to steal the line:)
DeleteAlways a pleasure to read your work Arti. This month has really been an odd one (mildly put!) and you captured it perfectly. May April bring peace and many more roses in full bloom!
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DeleteWhat a beautiful summation of thoughts carved with selected words and woven into a beautiful synchronised symphony that rhymes with everyone’s life of March 2026
ReplyDeleteThank you Samir :)
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