Finally, the drought is over. We're having days of rain. My garden is so thirsty. It seems like weeks that I have been watering it, one pitcher at a time, morning and night.
Here are some rain poems by others much more gifted ( or hard working) than I.
Autumn Rain by D.H. Lawrence
The plane leaves
fall black and wet
on the lawn;
fall black and wet
on the lawn;
the cloud sheaves
in heaven’s fields set
droop and are drawn
in heaven’s fields set
droop and are drawn
in falling seeds of rain;
the seed of heaven
on my face
the seed of heaven
on my face
falling — I hear again
like echoes even
that softly pace
like echoes even
that softly pace
heaven’s muffled floor,
the winds that tread
out all the grain
the winds that tread
out all the grain
of tears, the store
harvested
in the sheaves of pain
harvested
in the sheaves of pain
caught up aloft:
the sheaves of dead
men that are slain
the sheaves of dead
men that are slain
now winnowed soft
on the floor of heaven;
manna invisible
on the floor of heaven;
manna invisible
of all the pain
here to us given;
finely divisible
falling as rain.
here to us given;
finely divisible
falling as rain.
and from Psalm 84
As they go through the bitter valley,
they make it a place of springs.
The autumn rain covers it with blessings.
They walk with ever growing strength
They will see the God of Gods in Zion.
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