Rhyme Rain Poems

Walking in silence in the soft summers rain, 
In treetops a song thrush singing your name.

Asleep Sensuous memories, if you only knew, 
Seeking solace in...

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These aren't empty sentences filled with nouns
& verbs but is a testimony of spirit 
The witness sits inside peering from behind 
spirited eyes of vengeance...

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I've always lived in Southern California.
I've never heard of summer rain.
This notion, I have to say, quite honestly,
Strikes me as insane.   

I might as well...

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                     If you only knew...

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The river waters flow

Like the blood runs through my veins 

Wherever they may go

They carry my joys and pains

And when the waters rise

From a torrential...

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Underneath cloudy morning skies,
we can touch the rain,
we can feel our pain,
we can witness sorrow.

Underneath clearer afternoon skies,
we can observe the light,
we can experience warmth,
we...

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wild wind whipping
trees bend and thrash
leaves rudely torn off
gardens trashed

blackening skies
presage the storm
rain drops attack
and hail pellets form

shattering glass
in windows and doors
denting parked cars
as a...

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Dark and stormy is waiting for me 

As the night begins to call 

A rumbling sound with no shelter found 

As the bitter raindrops fall

Lightning...

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Morning sunshine after the rain 
Shower of grace to mend the pain 
A flow of grace from up above 
A saving grace, a gift of...

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In the hushed silence of the night,
Do you hear it?
The soft pitter-patter, a gentle lullaby,
Each droplet a note in nature’s symphony,
A cascading melody, winding down...

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The communists are coming
The democrats are crying
And the republicans are lying
This is May Day
Please don’t run away
The birds are coming
The deer are running
And the squirrels...

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I tell you this rain
Will even grow dead grain
And every filth and disdain 
It is bound to drown or drain

It pounds, it pours
Oh Lord, the...

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Birthday Poem to Myself
by Michael R. Burch

LORD, be no longer this Distant Presence,
Star-Afar, Righteous-Anonymous,
but come! Come live among us;
come dwell again,
happy child among men—
men rejoicing...

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These are poems about sinking, poems about drowning, poems about loss, and poems about new discoveries we sometimes make while feeling lost...



Sinking
by Michael R. Burch

for...

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Once upon a midnight dreary

Neath a cloud my body weary

To make things worse, down came the rain

Then hail and rain danced on my brain

I took...

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