Dark skies lit by lightning bright
City lights slighted by foreboding sight
Dweller’s fright blights their night
As Ragnarök’s fight takes flight
Icy winds bite and show their might
Streaks of white at differing heights
Clatter with spite as they strike and smite
And Norse Gods reveal their plight
The End and The Beginning, all unite
For Ragnarøkkr; the Gods’ Twilight
Hélène has provided the above dramatic image for this week’s What Do You See? challenge. It took me back to the days of Norse Mythology, and the End and the Beginning of time. Link below:
Tom
Nice one TL….Good poem…And that photo is amazing!!! Never seen anything like it! Thanks for sharing it. VK
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Thanks, VK. It’s another photo shared by Hélène for her weekly challenge!
Isn’t it dramatic?
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A beautiful poetic rendition of Norse Mythology, Tom. The end and the beginning, you wrote an absolutely magnificent poem. Thank you!
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Thank you once again for providing the inspiration, Hélène.
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My pleasure, Tom.
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Wonderful poem and image, Tom Very dramatic indeed. 👏🏻
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Thanks, Sylvia.
It just spoke in Norse to me! 😀
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I like the idea of gods plural. 😀
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I’ve always been drawn to multiple gods.
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Great Poem and Image Tom.. The skies are getting more and more dramatic if one keeps looking skyward.. 🙂
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Thanks, Sue.
Yes, indeed. There seems to be more happening now than there used to!
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Wow! Beautiful lines and AMAZING photo! Thank you for sharing!!
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My pleasure for the words, Manuela. Hélène found the photo!
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That’s a beautiful photo, I saw lightening like this in Las Vegas many years ago but the hotel windows were so dirty that’s I couldn’t get any decent photos. It was amazing to see though, nature at its best.
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It is a dramatic photo, Claire, isn’t it?
I saw lightning when it was snowing once – that felt surreal. Mind you, nature’s fabulous whatever’s going on.
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Lightening on snow sounds very strange. I’m not so keen on nature when it’s destroying my allotment and crops, or raining when on holiday (like now) but it can be stunning.
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The ‘bad’ side is just there so we appreciate the ‘good’ side all the more! 😀 That’s what I tell myself when the weather’s doing the total opposite to what I feel it should be doing.
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The god’s twilight. Visionary…
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It’s what struck me when I saw the photo, Violet.
The story, that is… not the, erm, lightning…
Thank you! 🙂
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Love the imagery
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Thanks, Paul.
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Pleasure
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