Buffeted!

The wind howls in this Feb sun bright;

Winter’s leafless trees hold tight

Scratching rain-filled clouds of grey

Our neighbour’s tree house starts to sway …

 

Wild, wild weather comes to town

Travel plans turned upside down!

Belgium - put on high alert

Grounded planes, trams/trains inert.

 

Eerie light as shadows pass,

Tousled movements in the grass

Hanging baskets dip and spin

Birds, like tossed ships, lose their trim…

 

Rattling glass doors - raucous noise

Gusts whipped up as Nature toys

With odds and sods strewn in the street;

Mankind beats a swift retreat!

 

As this uninvited force comes nigh

Sensed, not seen, by naked eye

Does a chuckle echo in the air?

Dame Nature warns us: “Do take care!”

(c) Poet in the woods 2022