Rod's Wildside Photography and Poetry

These weather poems have featured on BBC Guernsey Guidelines during December 2009

I love extremes of weather, of record breaking stuff,

Both hottest and coldest temperatures and enjoy the sea when rough,

But the ultimate experience, at least the one I like the best

Is the noisiest spectacular that puts the bravest to the test.

I mean of course a thunderstorm where skies light with every flash

And animals cower in corners at the sound of every crash.

Such a display of power is hard to comprehend

How something so enormous can such energy expend.

We are told a flash of lightening can a city energise,

Yet can come so suddenly, we are caught out in surprise.

I love to gaze up heavenward and marvel at this show,

It tells me of a mighty God someone so vast to know.

The sound of it is awesome; it shakes the house I’m in,

You simply can’t ignore it; it’s making such a din.

Yet in the midst of all the power one fact I can’t dismiss,

Is in the greatness of its Maker, He is mine and I am His.