thunderstorm emmi my hair sticks to my neck, thunderstorms have that way of making the floors of my house cold and the air inside stuffy...i try to fill the brief silences with music, but it still feels emptier than usual and i can't seem to relax. i prance about upstairs and downstairs and wait for the phone to ring but all i ever hear is the rain. 040708 ... zeke ions! i love thunderstorms! green grey sky and light from all sides. sudden wind, humid with rain and ions. smell, like the hothouse at the botanical garden, bringing tang of earth and green green  life. onrushing of horizontal rain, warm and delicious in passage and the waves of density make a rythem. inside with windows open, curtains flying outward and rain sounds on tin roof drum. the storm is over. 040709 ... newme storm storm T H U N D E R thunder thunder storm thunder storm 040712 ... z stoder thunrm 040712 ... newme ... i'm in love with rain and thunder but when it storms and there is no water i watch the hills for fire ... i know a man who was hit by lightning once that man was and is my grandpa ... didn't know that till recently even though it happened years ago long before i was born and talking walking about fire rain and thunder ... few weeks ago a lightning bolt shot through my grandpa's valley hit a dog a computer and a well all in one zap of frazzle daz ... grandpa's well got buzzed out crazy and it cost him lots of money but at least it wasn't his dog that died he doesn't have a computer to get fried just a well for feeding drinking water ... and i thank gosh grandpa missed the lightning once is enough too much for any creature ... and i'm in love with thunder rain and when it storms but there is no water i watch the hills for fire ... it rarely scares me i'm always watching the crashing light dripping thunder ... when the evening power_flickers i stand inside outside the rain and watch the clouds roll in they turn me in they turn me out i go into the thunder turn me in turn me ... i'm in love with rain and thunder but when it storms and there is no water i watch the hills for fire ... last year i saw the burning i watched lightning dance the mountains the pine_needle_ashes falling ... and i watch summer burn cool and sweet sweet summer sweet this is with rain i watch the nights crash lightning thunder storm thunder lightning i watch from my garden i watch the mountains ... and it rains and i love the thunder it feeds a fire in me ... 040712 ... z . 040712 ... emmi there's been a thunderstorm every afternoon the past week, and i'm beginning to wonder if this is the new global_climate_change kind of monsoon. it's warm during the day and i wake up late and put on my hotpants and such. i go outside to walk around in the sun and it's warm and humid but the sky is black. later in the day it just gets hotter until the first sounds of thunder, and then the wind comes. i put on my pyjama trousers, close the doors to the porch and sit inside wondering what i should do. all my plans for the day fell through and i desperately want to get out of here. i remember how my mum told me of her uncle who died when he was struck by lightning. i shouldn't even have the computer on, but i guess it gives me the illusion of company. whatever happened to warm summer nights and barbecue dinner parties? is it gonna rain all through 2005, too? 040718 ... zeke horizontal rain and hard big drops plashing returning tears to tires and racing, greasy, over cracked and worn asphalt run out of vast pipes and drop onto mud flats covered to lie in the shadow of the interstate and stops 040730 ... . 040731 ... minnesota_chris even better than the torrents and flashes is the way the oncoming storm makes you feel. The ominous, growing slate grey sky touched with crazy shredded white clouds gradually fills the west, making everyone crazy and fearful. It only brings rain, but it conjures images of devastaion. 040808 ... dries&hardens You've got a greater chance of being struck by lightning twice than of being in a plane crash. I think I like those odds either way. 051226 ... triplesix The gods are composing chaos upstairs Soon the autumn air will chill And heaven's tears will fall 061113 what's it to you? who go blather from