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“Looking for your light,
I went out:
it was like the sudden dawn
of a million million suns,

a ganglion of lightnings
for my wonder.”
― Allama Prabhu, Speaking of Siva

“Lightning doesn’t thunder twice. Let that be a lesson in love.”
― Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

“I knew it!' Rhi grins. 'Tell me it's good.'

'I broke his window.' I wince and my cheeks heat.

'Like... you threw something at it?' Her brow knits.

'No. As in, lightning stuck... a lot, and I shattered his window.'
...
'Damn,' Rhiannon grins. 'I wish someone made me shatter windows.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Ducks are a lot like lightning, I thought to myself as I played my electric guitar. Or was it a harp? I get those two farm tools mixed up.”
― Jarod Kintz, BearPaw Duck And Meme Farm presents: Two Ducks Brawling Is A Pre-Pillow Fight

“You don't want to be on Electric Avenue when it rains.”
― Nuclear Circus, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.”
― George Santayana

“Whatever else you do, know that you are mine. You are a true son of the Sea God.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“From a distance, Mikalla was a flash of blistering color, more like a walking lightning bolt than a mere human.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“Every few minutes a fresh gust of lightness sweeps through Zeno. There was that name, Hillary, but what of it? If Rex has found a Hillary, bless him. He made it out. He is alive. He has invited Zeno for “a bit of a function.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“I stood for several minutes on the stoop, waiting for lightning to strike me. It didn't, so I rang the doorbell.”
― Jody Lee Mott, Hush-A-Bye

“Play your saxophone like a quacking duck. An electric guitar full of lightning doesn't even have that energy.”
― Jarod Kintz, The Lewis and Clark of The Ozarks

“If you swim in the ocean every day for 100 years, you are more likely to be struck by lightning than swallowed by a shark.”
― Mark Leiren-Young, Sharks Forever: The Mystery and History of the Planet’s Perfect Predator

“Suttree stood among the screaming leaves and called the lightning down. It cracked and boomed about and he pointed out the darkened heart within him and cried for light.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

“Have you ever tried Zap Soup? There's just three ingredients: You, a pool, and lightning.”
― Jarod Kintz, Powdered Saxophone Music

“I recognize one of the virtual models as a character from the latest Final Fantasy game, a girl with bright blue hair, now greeting me by name and showing off her Louis Vuitton purse. A Buy Now button hovers right over it, waiting to be tapped.”
― Marie Lu, Warcross

“The collision of material ejected from the volcano's craters caused a build-up of static electricity in the atmosphere, which when combined with the accumulation of charge from rising hot air and moisture from the crater's meltwater reaching many kilometers up, created a huge amount of electricity that needed to be discharged, leading to spectacular, if hellish, sights.”
― Robert J. Ford, Volcano: Live, Dormant and Extinct Volcanoes Around the World

“Tropical Air Plants
(epiphytic plants)


Air plants include orchids, bromeliads, and all staghorn ferns. They are not planted in soil, and they do not need to be watered. They derive nutrition from decomposing insects and leaves, and nitrogen from lightning strikes. There's not much to add to the story of plants that live off lightning and death. That is drama enough for ten stories.”
― Margot Berwin, Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire

“Sometimes life will force you to walk in the rain without any umbrella, while there is lightning and thunder. If you find yourself in that circumstance, don't feel bad at all, that's how life is sometimes.”
― ThandazoPerfectKhumalo

“The Burning Chorus by Stewart Stafford

As clawed lightning, love strikes without warning to scorch the heart,
And, as it is painful to be born, love, make love, and die,
So we may surmise that life itself is pain in different guises,
Some unwelcome interlopers but all necessary.

More than passing sensations,
We are shocked into living,
And in that shock, the heart plots a different course,
To beat for the first time or quicken with excitement or cease.

Sometimes we stray into pleasure’s realms,
Diverted there unknowing,
And resolve to be passengers no more,
But masters of when and where the burning chorus strikes.

© Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“These poems are echoes from the time of breakdown and breakthrough—scribbled in the gap between the lightning and the thunder as I counted the seconds . . . .”
― L.M. Browning, Drive Through the Night

“I did not like the large amount of lightning in Florida.”
― Steven Magee

“The Taranis Cèilidh by Stewart Stafford

Lightning's jagged spear,
Burning the horizon bright,
Silhouetting empty tables,
No picnics by the waterside.

Waves sloshed against jetties,
A displaced bath on all sides,
Flailing tree chorus genuflected,
To the foaming vat beside them.

The roar of the gale rose and fell,
Tempest's tongue agitated potently,
Leaves surrendered in droves to it,
Sleep deepened in the storm's fury.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“There was rain.
There was thunder.
There was lightning.
And there was a knock.”
― Arushi Raj, My Little Runaway

“There was a raging storm that night.
We watched the lightning flash
and counted the seconds
‘til the thunder rolled in.”
― David J Fletcher

“During the night, sheet lightning inlaid the walls with cool gold. I felt like an ancient, mummified child who had been found on a rock ledge near our ranch: bound tightly, unable to move, my dead face tipped backwards toward the moon.”
― Gretel Ehrlich, A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning

“The lightning made them appear in every detail like an intaglio and then disappear and then reappear again.”
― Paulette Jiles, News of the World

“And he said...

...thunder will only sound a warning after you have already seen the lightning.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“The angel could not belong to the faith in the way lightning could not belong to the myth of its making”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Lifecycle of Suns

“I’m not looking for anything, but who knows. Lightning is weird.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“They say lightning never strikes twice, but it can and it does; and if it’s meant to be, we prevail.”
― Dominic Riccitello