Prompt for: February 18, 2013 Subject or Theme: Earth, Air, Fire, Water (It's elemental, my dear!) Word(s) to Include: diverge (or any derivative of the word) Forbidden Word(s): Earth, Air, Fire, Water (or any derivatives of the words) Additional Parameters: Minimum 20 lines. Aeolus Rising I Derecho, fueled by changing pressures whips from low to high, Straight line, no divergence, forced ever faster. Pushing all before it, clearing the path for what lies behind. Stronger than the ancient oak, bark shatters, wood splinters: a hundred years of cyclic growth ends on a whisper of leaves, a groan of tearing heartwood, a sigh of settling. II Nor'easter flies furious, a child’s scream of terror battering at the door; crawling under eaves, slicing to the quick. Relentless Boreas, finding the smallest of crannies to whistle through. Pushing snow and sleet sideways; additional battering rams against the unprepared and weary. III Chinook roars down the frozen mountainside. Flight or fright: It is ravenous, hungry: the snow-eater comes— feeding on the cold, devouring its prey; ice teeth no match for the maw of Foehn and then, when sated, leaves false warmth behind. IV Zephyr seduces with placid breezy embraces, makes love: enveloping one with sweet caresses. A gentle kiss spreading afterglow—chimes musically touched in the night as if by a shadow to then sleek off in search of another. V Keeper of the Winds, Hippotades, who holds the reins of the four horses, who gathers or lets run free stallion winds of winter; filly breezes of the spring, coltish ayres* of summer and the high strung mares of autumnal days. Aeolus, who with mighty fist controls movement of that which gives us life or with gentle fingers plays lyric harp: harken back to Astraeus and let the currents ease on by. Note by author: On Earth, wind consists of the bulk movement of air. *ayre - a musical form of the mid 1600s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4YOoUoPKHk |