Essays: Storms 16 Articles

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by Jim Huckabee

Essays: Storms Storms are unadulterated beauty, awe filling, obedient to natures law, raw unconstrained power, destruction, and some end with a death count. They spawn fear and hope in the human psyche as they develop. St...read more

by Carmen Henesy

It was one of those sweltering summer afternoons when it almost hurt to breathe. I had begged my mother for a nickel to walk up the long dusty road to the rickety grocery store in Smith Station, Alabama, savoring the thoug...read more

by Tai Crayton

It is challenging being me. I am of great need, yet feared by many. I have the power to give and to take away. I have the authority to destroy, yet somehow replenish. To capture my very essence is virtually impossible....read more

by Nicholas Keller

There is love in a storm. That's what I see. The sky turns to a switching arrangement of mottled grays and shades of pale churning, then collide with the lazy power of our planet. Points of nature's earlier separation beco...read more

by Stephen Alexander

Stormy Weather Spring on the eastern seaboard can be a tumultuous season. The wind roars; the rain falls in torrents. There is also the potential for storms of impressive magnitude. Here in the southeastern United State...read more

by Nakia Claiborne

The rain comes and rain goes when a storm comes weathermen usually have a hard time predicting it. I mean it is hard to put an exact watch on something so chaotic. I never been a fan of storms. My grandmother use to...read more

by Donald Hancock

HURRICANES IN A NUTSHELL! As I write this, a hurricane is bearing down on the Gulf Coast of the United States. It will probably touch down at an area close to where Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans three years ag...read more

by Amanda Renyard

Storms are the most worse of all weathers it can happen all over the world when you don't expect it. You know when it happens the clouds change and it starts to get really windy every thing goes a sort of black and yo...read more

by AMERICAN MAN

~=A HEAVEN STORM=~ Walking and as if flying through time, heaven has grown a reflection of all my time on this place in heavens reality ~ into my memory. A venue like no other is now my heavens spiritual reality ~ with...read more

by Brandon Nicholson

Light crosses thru the dusk sky. Out of dull silence a thunderous crash! The wind blows increasingly strong and hard. Rain begins to fall with one drop then two until a steady pace begins to create a constant beat. Fear fr...read more

by Carolyn Mullins

Storms can mean different things. Literal storms- thunder and lightning with lots of rain, I suppose is the most common definition. Or I suppose it can refer to "storms" in one's life. Storms of life decisions, problems...read more

by Gayle Parks

Having grown up on the Texas end of Tornado Alley I have certainly seen my share of storms; hale, wind, rain, remnants of hurricanes blowing up from the Gulf of Mexico. But I was never truly afraid of such storms. Respectf...read more

by Diane Kutney

Ah, the summer storm. Nothing beats it. The darkening, ominous sky threatens at every turn. The winds pick up. Trees bend to its whim. You can almost smell the electricity in the air. A small trickle of fear but that just ...read more

by Diane Fanucchi

Rain Save for a rainy day, "raindrops keep fallin' on my head," "along with the sunshine, there's gonna be a little rain sometime," rainy day blues. Our culture abounds with songs and popular expressions that represe...read more

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by Piper Davenport

On Becoming an Activist (Part Four of this essay is found under Essays: Saying Goodbye.) 2. Exposing my prejudices to the world. The hardest part of being an activist is admitting my own hypocritical behavior and p...read more

by Ronald Claiborne

"And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. And He was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake Him, and say unto Him, Master, carest thou n...read more