“Song Of The Rain” I am dotted silver threads dropped from heaven By the gods. Nature then takes me, to adorn Her fields and valleys. I am beautiful pearls, plucked from the Crown of Ishtar by the daughter of Dawn To embellish the gardens. When I cry the hills laugh; When I humble myself the…
Category: beauty of the rain
NATURE POEMS: “THE RAIN” by William H. Davies
The Rain I hear leaves drinking rain; I hear rich leaves on top Giving the poor beneath Drop after drop; ’Tis a sweet noise to hear These green leaves drinking near. And when the Sun comes out, After this Rain shall stop, A wondrous Light will fill Each dark, round drop; I hope the Sun…
POEMS: “Water” by Wendell Berry
Water I was born in a drought year. That summer my mother waited in the house, enclosed in the sun and the dry ceaseless wind, for the men to come back in the evenings, bringing water from a distant spring. veins of leaves ran dry, roots shrank. And all my life I have dreaded…
POEMS: “Lingering in Happiness”
Photo credit: http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=24050 Lingering in Happiness After rain after many days without rain, it stays cool, private and cleansed, under the trees, and the dampness there, married now to gravity, falls branch to branch, leaf to leaf, down to the ground where it will disappear — but not, of course, vanish except to our…
LEARNING FROM NATURE POEMS: “Wind and rain” by Margaret Jang
“Wind and Rain” The trees are shaking to their roots, as the wind howls about, skirting through every branch, it seems to want to shout. Look at me, feel my power, see the damage I do, I can be blustery shaking with rage, or calm and gentle too. The wind and rain brews a storm…
NATURE POEMS: “Hush of the Rain” by Patricia Walter
Hush of the Rain I am gently wakened by the hush of the rain the whispers from God. The gray morning goes unnoticed quiet wounds touch my soul. Nothing harsh to the ears the lightning long tamed. I am awakened, surrounded by a gentleness known to few. Poetry & Art by Patricia Walter 2000…
HAIKU NATURE POEMS: “Summer rains” (“Lluvias de verano”)
“Summer rains” Summer rains, Scent of wet grass, A bird enjoys a splash! Amira “Lluvias de verano” Lluvias de verano, Olor a hierba mojada Un pájaro disfruta un chapoteo! Amira
POEMS: “What if the little rain should say”
What if the little rain should say
‘So small a drop as I
Can ne’er refresh the thirsty field
I’ll tarry in the sky.’
POEMS: “Paris in Spring” by Sara Teasdale
The city’s all a-shining
Beneath a fickle sun,
A gay young wind’s a-blowing,
POEMS: “Barter” (about the beauty of life) by Sara Teasdale
Life has loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff,
Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children’s faces looking up, Holding wonder like a cup.
POEMS FROM THE WEST INDIES: “Dark August” (about a rainy day) by Derek Walcott
So much rain, so much life like the swollen sky
of this black August. My sister, the sun,
broods in her yellow room and won’t come out.
POEMS: “Before Summer Rain” by Rainer Maria Rilke
so much solitude and passion come
from that one voice, whose fierce request the downpour
