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Rain, Heavy at Times
by Bruce W NiedtFifth straight day of overcast:
showers, drizzle, the odd downpour.
In a week where the sun
only appeared as a guest star,
its hard to come out from under
the flat, gray as stratus, hanging
over our heads.
Outside plans turn inward,
the only outdoor sports
the Olympic puddle-jump,
the fifty-yard parking-lot dash,
under improvised newspaper umbrellas.
In drier havens, some of us
take up pens and notebooks
to write away storms with
invocations of better weather:
sun-driven blue, azalea-painted Mays,
immaculate winters, rust-dressed autumns.
If only we could change the climate
just by summoning such images,
our pens pushing up barometers,
parting clouds, letting in yellow beams
to fall on our desktops.
Wouldnt that be something, we think,
as the rain finally stops. 05/25/2003 Posted on 05/25/2003
Copyright © 2024 Bruce W Niedt
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 05/25/03 at 08:38 PM Sure can relate to this one! My brother got remaried yesterday. The wedding went swimmingly...pun intended. The only negative was the continuous downpour of rain...outside photos had to be scrubbed. Aside from that everything went fine. |
| Posted by Mary Ellen Smith on 05/26/03 at 01:39 PM I think the pen does summon brighter images...yours certainly has! Love the reference to outdoor olympics! |
| Posted by David R Spellman on 05/26/03 at 03:10 PM With today's continuing rain I can certainly empathize with this one! It would be great to be able to pen our way to sunnier times as you so well suggest with this one. |
| Posted by Ginette T Belle on 05/26/03 at 11:00 PM "the Olympic puddle-jump, the fifty-yard parking-lot dash" my favourite lines...love, love, love this...beautifully written
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| Posted by Anne Engelen on 05/27/03 at 01:45 PM and i like the rain....maybe for the better since Belgium is a wet country afterall! Rain does have something soothing afterall! Nice read:) |
| Posted by Rommel Cruz on 05/30/03 at 02:08 PM it's rainy season here, so lots and lots of rain... love the 3rd stanza, i think it's very funny. |
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