Love Poem: Tempest
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Written by: John Oldham

Tempest

He threw at her the black of night
And then the fire of day
Roared as of a hurricane
With avalanching speed

She crackled as a lightning bolt
Within a thunderstorm
And then unleashed – in torrents
The cyclones of her wrath –

With violence they wrestled long
And raged the heaving seas
Hurled the stone of Sisyphus
At Scylla and Charybdis

And in the tempest, tooth and blood
Together bested love –