Wrath, by Leah Chrestien

Storm at Sea off the Norwegian Coast, by Andreas Achenbach (Germany) 1837

Wrath

Mighty waves lash out at the craggy shore,
strong gusts bend trees against their will,
giant cliffs loom over the restless waters,
the tide is menacing and nothing is still!

Loud and thunderous, the skies rage on,
violent is the storm and cold is the breeze,
streaks of lightning strike the highest rock
when small pieces fall into unsettling seas.

Sunlight has abandoned all hours of day,
the boats overturn with shattered masts,
massive waves weather the bare rock face,
the cliffs are sprayed with rain-filled blasts.

When Poseidon unleashes his deadly wrath,
deep darkness descends and shuns all light;
rising and falling against the rugged shore,
the dark waves break into dazzling white.

Billowing gray clouds amass over the seas,
severing the coast from the warmth of day;
swelling waves approach with frantic haste,
devouring mammoth rocks along its way.

The earth trembles and the heaven shakes,
unnerving the waves of the troubled seas;
terrible is the wrath of the surging tide,
crushing sail-boats and uprooting trees!

Leah Chrestien

Leah Chrestien is a Machine Learning engineer by profession, who lives in Prague and writes poetry in her free time. Her poems have appeared multiple times in Our Daily Poem, Westward Quarterly, Leading Edge Magazine, Spillwords, and The Raven Review. Her personal blog can be found at theecstaticstoryteller.blog.