TROPICAL STORM CLOUDS  (migrating tropical storm clouds over Galveston Island, Texas, 7-11-99)

tropical
white clouds
loom
like mythological
god lands
cumulus mountains
moving in
overtaking every
horizon
in towering
legions
of morphing
exotic  
peopleless cities
like lost realms  
shangrilas
steadily
marching forth
in monolithic
crusade
overwhelming
blue sky
dominance
above our heads
snowy himalayas
billowing up
in heaps
bulbous  roiling
mass muscled
crawls
increasingly blocking
sun from sight
epic tidal waves
tumbling down
towards us here
so small
so weak
here down below
as distant
dark rains fall
wild thunder comes
stampeding
rumbling power
erupting up
from southern gulf
in wild herds
driven on
by whip crack
lightning storms
soon trampling down
upon us all
sheltered
hiding here below
we little ants 🐜
trembling now
in either wonderment
or fear
of  from
and by
the sheer  
raw power
of natures humbling
wild expression
upon this wondrous
living earth
our conscious
sacred
home sweet
home