lightning dallas frightful and magical, a beam of solid energy bursts from the sky and strikes the ground, setting living things aflame. 980907 ... torch not only physical, but lightning leaps from every person, charging others' minds and hearts with electricity and drive. some of us are just more electric than others. we need these human lightning rods, however; where else would we get a dynamic leader, one daring to challenge injustice and rescue us from ourselves? 000220 ... camille awakening 000314 ... birdmad Did we really see lightning that night on the hill? or were we just hallucinating? Stoned and laughing ( at everything and nothing ) we stumbled among the rocks and the brush in the middle of the night as the lights of the city spread out below us. imagining the excavation machines at the base of the pit below to be sleeping giants sitting, talking mistaking airplanes for shooting stars Samantha, did you ever really care? or was i just fooling myself? 000331 ... silentbob Lightning (Written by CountingCrows) It's crazy but often clear but often clear We shimmer and disappear In color, in black and white black and white We slowly fade out of sight But these days were lit by lightning These lights all were white It's crazy but somehow clear Somehow clear We ride in silence out of fear We spoke and soon come alive Come alive We prefer the silence of the blind But these days were lit by lightning These lights all were white These days were lit by lightning Of sharp, light, sharp, white, light, hard, good, white We're crazy but often kind Often kind Enrage and in violence blind You gather, and that alone That alone We race in small circles home But these days were lit by lightning These lights are were white These days were lit by lightning Of sharp, white, light These days were lit by lightning These lights are were white These days were lit by light 000622 ... somebody static discharge...when we sit around long enough and an idea begins to boil over, we can barely hold it within ourselves, it bubbles out and with a noise not so dissimilar to that of the natural stuff, although observed only from afar, it strikes the minds of those around you, too long static yet without it themselves 000915 ... Christy Sometimes I feel as if I have been plucked from the sky like a lightning bug midflight. 010910 ... god kloot is kloot 011201 ... ClairE crashes. I never liked that song as much as everyone else seems to. I do love Live, though. 011201 ... whoknows the best lightning ive ever seen i saw at the end of the summer with one of my best friends. he was driving me home but we decided drive out to a field and spent the rest of the night just talking and watching the storm. i learned a lot about him that night. i love rex. 011201 ... impact branches of lightning rupture the sky and i think of you because i always think of your smile and your words you race through my veins blazing fire through them sometimes i think i am going to burst flaming heart to fingertips from your electricity 020628 ... Arugula Red I stand in the storm, water flowing around me Hours pass me by unconcerned I have no need to be dry. Strike me, lightning! Light me up like a signal flare And for an instant make me tingle, glowing 021118 ... joda Soon. I miss summer. 030426 ... girl_jane Can you feel the hairs stand up on the back of your neck... 030426 ... celestias shadow yum 030806 ... delial I had a dream last night involving this it was pouring down rain somewhere..oregon or something foresty like I was with three others [ a couple and a mutual friend or something like that ] and we were huddling under cement columns and such trying to hide from the lightning it was coming down in strings, and hitting along in straight lines and curves I thought to myself: "well, lightning never strikes the same place twice right? what is up with it forming patterns??" and then we'd be running under another overhang of cement which didn't quite cover us I laughed at the fact there were openings in the columns so that the lightning could just go through and hit us I thought it was funny how we were running for cover and yet the very place we were hiding just made it easier to aim at us [yeah, the lightning was aiming at us] it wasn't so much a feeling of being scared so much as feeling annoyed that they thought we were hiding in a good place. why couldn't we have just gotten in_the_car and waited out the storm? 030806 ... emmi 'one ninth of november, when they were playing a duet under the orange trees because the air was pure and the sky was high and cloudless, a sudden flash blinded them, a seismic detonation startled them, and dona olalla was struck down by lightning.... when he returned from the cemetery, he was surprised by a storm of little paper birds falling like snow on the orange trees in the orchard. he caught one of them, unfolded it, and read: That lightning bolt was mine.' -marquez, of love and other demons 040504 ... andru235 if it strikes you, playing tennis; darkness seems much less a menace 050101 ... violencia. i got lightning in my veins. . . 060620 ... dries&hardens may strike twice but it must be something other than luck or circumstance for it to strike over and over and please, just once more though there are some who may be shamed by my plea but for one more chance to look at lightning and not curse the spring 090111 what's it to you? who go blather from