Stormy Weather

Kristen Howe

Grey puffy clouds loom in the night time sky,

Trees lashed by a fierce, cold wintry wind,

Waves foaming on the lake-ripples flowing with the tides.

Once blue, the lake seems grey,

Snowflakes and rain fall together,

Contrasting against the black backdrop,

Orbs of white and gold city lights accent the stormy weather.

Kristen Howe’s poetry has appeared in Associated Content, Blazevox, Blue Fog Journal, Ceremony, Current Accounts, Down in the Dirt, Fullosia Press, The Funny Paper, Hummingbird, Illogical Muse, Languageandculture.net, Long Story Short, Love’s Chance, The Magical Blog, Mid-America Poetry Review, Nomad’s Choir, the Oak, Pegasus, Pink Chameleon Online, Poetic Hours, Poet’s Haven, Poet’s Pen, Pulse, Purple Dream, Quantum Leap, Real Eight Poetry E-Zine, Redbridge Review, Remark, Ribbons, Sage of Consciousness, The Shepherd, Silver Wings, Stellar Showcase Journal, Soul Fountain, Speedpoets, Storyteller, Victory News, Wanderings, Westward Quarterly, and Women of the Cross.

While she devotes her time to poetry (both reading and writing), she’s looking for full-time office work—which inspires more poetry than you might imagine. She also writes short stories and is currently working on a few novel manuscripts, including one novella. She’s formerly from New Jersey but has been living on Ohio for the past eight years. She's  31 years old.