My husband's poetry

Category: rain

  • A gardener and his son

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    between fence and street with found lumber and old skids a gardener and his son build Eden’s wall plant tomatoes and squash, peppers and beans curse animals that steal in the night pull weeds with bare hands watch yellow blossoms swell to fruit talk with neighbors passing by about the rain 5-24-22

  • rainy day haiku

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    lone rainy day goosetucks its head under its wingwaiting for relief 4-16-22

  • 4am porch haiku

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    rain rattles drain pipe caterwauling hormone rage needs to find a room 4-7-22

  • Blue

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    Picasso paints a blue guitar, Blue flowers, blue ladies, an old man with a brown guitar Neck bent as if broken against a blue background Jared declares love is like living in a blue Delft porcelain cup Blue sapphires and bright diamonds on a blue couch, Pretending you were born with blue blood Carry a…

  • Days like these

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    Days of rain hold me on the porch gather in gutters clean the streets Days of rain slow and steady call moss to green birds to song Days of rain slowly drum pull the shades take a nap Days of rain wet and warm summon frogs serenade the dark 2-4-22

  • Sunday haiku

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    army of rain drops marching west to east in trees rattle grows louder 1-2-22

  • Ear worms

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    Rainy, autumn day Sixty years on And childhood admonitions still Burrow in your head “Go outside Don’t drip that on my floor!” You take your keto ice cream bar And walk to the park When you come back inside Mom doesn’t even say thanks 12-10-21

  • 11/22 haiku

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    wet moss on hard ground ignores the coming winter rhizoids dance in rain 11-22-21

  • after rain haiku

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    half-dressed Autumn trees shiver after last night’s rain white ships sail blue sky 11-12-21

  • Solstice

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    No wind to stir and drive the rain under bottom split rails long dry lines fence the ground Tired yellow leaves leap into warm autumn air tilting leisurely as they fall Green trees patiently wait until light no longer cooks carbon candy I do not know which way is best the first have friends to…