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# Thunder and Lightning
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/thunder-and-lightning/
- Published: 2024-04-04T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-04-04T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: An echo thunders through the canyon it's fast but still a step behind its spark of lightning, the companion that it's allotted and assigned. So close to first that it can smell it -- is there a means that could propel...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

An echo thunders through the canyon  
it's fast but still a step behind  
its spark of lightning, the companion  
that it's allotted and assigned.  
So close to first that it can smell it --  
is there a means that could propel it  
into the lead it so deserves?  
It is the thunder god it serves  
and yet it's lightning for the laurel.  
Upset, it reaches out to Zeus,  
who in attempting to diffuse  
and settle the impending quarrel,  
allows that thunder will be first,  
though just behind the lightning burst.