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The wind howls . . . the thunder rolls . . . Like a blue flame, flocks of clouds blaze up above the sea's abyss. The sea catches bolts of lightning drowning them beneath its waters. Just like serpents made of fire, they weave in the water, fading, the reflections of this lightning. —Tempest! Soon will strike the tempest!
June Thunder is a poem of seven stanzas, each of four lines. The poem does not make use of a rhyme scheme. The poem is written in a loose form of the sapphic stanza, and is included by Grace Schulman in a list of English poems that are "sapphics-inspired". [5] The short fourth line of each stanza is an Adonic, as in a sapphic stanza: "Joys of a ...
The poem is recited by James Stewart's character in Magic Town (1947). Passages from this poem are recited in Soldier Blue (1970) in lieu of a prayer after a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne. Lines from the poem is quoted at the end of When The Wind Blows (1982). The poem inspired the Iron Maiden song "The Trooper" (1983). [13]
The poem was first published in the Sentinel of Troy, New York, on 23 December 1823. All eight reindeer were named, the first six being Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet and Cupid; the final two, "Dunder" and "Blixem", are from a Dutch oath meaning "thunder" and "lightning". [7] [8] [9] The relevant part of the poem reads:
In the lightning and thunder, your flute plays, But that is no ordinary tune, I shall wake up to that tune. X2. In the lightning and thunder, your flute plays, But that is no ordinary tune, Let me have, that very tune. May I happily weather that storm, Even on the verge of lifelessness, Across 7 rivers, in 10 directions, Make us dance with your ...
Thunder and lightning are much more common in warm, summer months because of convection, the upward motion of air that helps produce thunderstorms. Because convection is rare in winter ...
The Thunder, Perfect Mind" (Coptic: ⲧⲉⲃⲣⲟⲛⲧⲏ: ⲛⲟⲩⲥ ⲛ̄ⲧⲉⲗⲉⲓⲟⲥ tebrontē: nous n̄teleios) is a Coptic text originally discovered in the Nag Hammadi library in 1945. It follows a poetic structure, and has received scholarly attention for its gnomic style and unclear subject.
When there's thunder and lightning outside, childhood instinct says to hide under the covers. Check out these crazy lightning snapshots: Unfortunately, a woman in Michigan found out this week that ...