sky clouds rain–
suddenly letting
go, transformed–
drunk vortex,
mélange of thunder swirling–
spilling wind water
A shadorma for Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday words, kind and shift. Thesaurus.com says mélange is a synonym for kind. I think it’s a bit of a stretch, but I love the sound of it.
And the storm really did break those 100 degree days into a more seasonal 80.
K. 
You lucky thing! I love your cool colours spilling rain.
The online thesaurus is useless. There are more slangy idiomatic expressions than real dictionary words on offer.
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Yes, it was a wild storm but the result was good (and the roof didn’t leak, although it set off the neighbors’ fire alarms and they went off for hours until the fire department came and turned them off…)
The thesaurus always has interesting offerings…like slant rhymes, I suppose. But I’m happy to take advantage of it from time to time.
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Glad the roof held. Not a particularly senisitive fire alarm!
I use the online version because I don’t know where ours have got to. In a box somewhere. It’s pretty feeble though. I hadn’t thought of using it for rhymes.
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I have an actual Thesaurus too–at least I think I do, I haven’t seen it for years. But then there are boxes of books I haven’t managed to open for the past 2 moves.
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Same here. We could have lost half our possessions over the last moves and we’d never know.
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Beautiful words, Kerfe.
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Thanks Robbie.
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Wonderful image of splashing, rain colors to cool your world. ❤ Love the idea of a drunken vortex. 🙂 We cooled off for few days and now back to the heat wave.
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Thanks Olga. We are slowly inching our way back up too.
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Summer heat wave yo-yo. 🙂 At this point, I’m yearning for autumn.
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If only the ocean were outside my door I might be able to handle it better.
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Me too! 🙂
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Oh, Kerfe, this is fabulous. I do love your choice of words. Your painted image is so spot-on for what is happening in the world too. On a side note, I woke up yesterday morning to the sound of rolling thunder and rain! It was a fabulous desert storm. ❤
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Thanks Colleen. I bet the storms out there are majestic!
The ones scattered around the world on the other hand…
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Oh, I know. The weather is scary everywhere. ❤
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beautiful!
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Thanks Jodi.
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This has such a fantastic array of vocab! I’m going to have to write down a few of these words!
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Thanks!
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What an expressive, brief storm of words!
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Thanks Ken. It’s been a stormy summer.
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