Category: rain
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After the rain
After the rain you gather lost worms stranded on concrete and throw them in the grass so they may live another day. You have things to do and walk past many more that you do not save and feel guilty abandoning them to die in the hot sun. 5-19-23
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Haiku before the rain
duck glides calmly by serenity is not free webbed feet churn below 5-6-23
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Rain watcher
no dog walkers, no tennis players, no rim rattling gamers, birds and leaf blowers have all gone silent tires slap wet pavement, carpets of clouds rub together, static electric tympani rumbles overhead, wet snare drum plays in the trees Carol watches the Weather Channel, I sit on our porch watching the rain, wishing I’d cleaned…
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Waiting for rain
waiting for rain azaleas burst bright pink blossoms on green foliage 3-17-23
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rain haikus
empty coffee cupgo inside before it rainsand take a shower —————————- heavy morning airfull clouds darkening to greyrain in the forecast 2-17-23
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Park bench haiku
blue sky speckled white western breeze, bringer of change forecasts cold and rain 2-1-23
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haiku rain
tree frogs harmonize descants, trills and drumming rain listen under eaves 1-30-23
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3 poems on 1-23-23
#1 Water is muddy After rain During drought Clear Of the Two, I much prefer Rain. ========================================= #2 Plastic bottle floating among weeds along the shore did the rain push you or did someone throw you in? I will wait for the wind to drive you closer to shore before I gather you up for…
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Waiting for a pie fight
Sunrise 36, rain is forecasted for 10 am. Before buckets fall from atop the door in this Three Stooges movie, you get your walk in. An hour before noon, you peek out the windowblind disappointed that it hasn’t rained. 12-20-22
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Tanka for a drizzly morning
up early reading fresh coffee in the next room peanut butter toast need to get up from my chair before I fall back asleep 11-15-22
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