i printed it out already, and anyway...
Free verse poetry can have odd rhythms, and I was kind of doing that to make it suspenseful.
About changing "of nature"... I was using symbolism to say basically that "You haven't seen anything of nature, until you've seen a geyser eruption" in two words.
Here's a breakdown. No one asked for one, I just felt like making one...
100 degrees Celcius
Simple, the temperature.
the lion roars
Metaphor geyser = lion
A rush of water
swelling over the land
vaporization
steam emanating from the cone
of the geyser
as well as the water
and the plants in the way dieing
burnt
jetting water
over 50 feet into the air
A nice description.
the boiling rain subsides
metaphorish, the "rain" is just water falling.
wait over 2 hours
another 3 minutes
Eruption interval and eruption length respectively.
of nature
Again, I was using symbolism to say basically that "You haven't seen anything of nature, until you've seen a geyser eruption" in two words.