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Not Quite a Goodbye

i can feel
the turn
of your season
fading

the dull
gathering
of the rain
gives weight
to the bend
of new leaves

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season   rain   gathering

Two Impressions of Early Summer

dull pink rises
over the growing
weight
of the houses

between
the quiet hours
the morning glories
close their petals
against the evening
rain

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rain

STORM FRONT

Away in the distance on a cold dreary night,

the horizon is lit by flickering lights.

Storm clouds as black as the darkest heart

and lightning tears the very air apart.

 

A grumbling mass of swirling bile,

the silence, the earth, the night to defile.

Like distant portents of desolate doom,

sorry shadows of a dusk too soon.

 

The dull silhouette of the thunderheads mas...

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STORM   RAIN   HAILSTONES   WIND   CLOUDS   THUNDER   LIGHTNING

garden

I

Remember a time

That I use to hate the rain

As it meant I couldn’t go out and

Play

Now I pray for rain

Because when it rains

I don’t have to water the garden

 

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idleness   lethargy   Rain

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