Lightning

'Lightning': Coloured pencil drawing by Nicole Moore

Saturn-like parallel stream-rings

Tornado in the distance

turbulence

disturbance

captured

in a moment

textured lightning striking

putting on a pre-formance

awaiting the thunderous response

9th poem for NaPoWriMo2017

*Ekphrastic poem
ⓒ Nicole Moore

NaPoWriMo's 9th day prompt:

Write a nine-line poem. 

*According to the Poetry Foundation, "an ekphrastic poem is a vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of art." More generally, an ekphrastic poem is a poem inspired or stimulated by a work of art.