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[sid] => 73495
[catid] => 1
[aid] => mick
[title] => The Thunder
[time] => 2004-11-28 20:04:39
[hometext] => A poem written for Thunder Over Louisville, the annual opening of the Kentucky Derby Season. They have a fabulous airshow and fireworks display. (Much better than WEBN in Cincy)
[bodytext] => The approaching darkness heralds The coming night The many gathered below impatiently await The bursting light The flowers bloom to sudden life The dying, quicker The stars break apart and fall The lights, they flicker Half a million people Await with baited breath Explode in thunderous applause Only memories are left Paper and debris float Silence is a sound The flotsam of a grateful throng Litters up the ground The only stars out now Are nightly ones Left behind in splendor Remnants of the suns The Thunder now is gone It’s time is past Another year ‘til it returns It will have to last [comments] => 4 [counter] => 206 [topic] => 35 [informant] => Rous [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => SpecialOccassion )
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