Drumroll, please. For I am the W3 Prompt #76 We’ave Written Weekly Poet of the Week! Thank you Suzette Benjamin for honouring me thus.
Drumroll please.
My poetry prompt is to write about THE SUN in free verse. In answer to my prompt, I wrote my poem, SOLAR STORM.
I thank all the poets who will write to this prompt. I look forward to reading the poems very much. It will be a difficult task to be the appointed judge to choose the poem and next week’s POTW, but I shall strive to do my best.
Solar Storm
SOLAR STORM The blast of heat from the blazing sun Can hit you like a flame from a welder’s gun The power of this almighty orb Can singe sear burn and absorb the Dark All darkness of space gone in a spark of a sunbeam’s light, With hungry, long solar stormed tongues licking away the night. Without the broiling cauldron sphere, we wouldn’t be here Without the twelve-mile atmosphere, we couldn’t be here There’d be no plants, no sea, no life-form When the sun blows a raged solar storm Make sure your iPhone and laptops are on full charge or plugged in a protected surge plug in the garage The wrath of the wind from an angry sun can leave our technology all undone. The heat is so intense There is no guard against There is no fence No strong defence (the Ray Bans won’t hack it) Lesley Scoble, October 2023
Thank you, David, W3 Prompt #76 We’ave Written Weekly for your encouragement and motivation. Thank you Suzette Benjamin, former poet of the week, for your good taste in poetry. IMAGE CREDIT Solar Storm Digital Painting by Yours truly.
Lesley lives in the City of London Square Mile. An artist, actor and sculptor (her first ceramic sculpture won the V&A inspired by… Award). Scenic artist & book illustrator, playwright, (her musical play, Rapscallion performed in inner city schools and theatre school); TV dancer; Animator and illustrator for TV production. Set up Pinecone Studios Ltd and IIMSI Ltd drama and filmmaking workshops in London – producing award-winning films made by children.
LesleyScoble.com 
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