Listening To the Rain
Gentle rains falling with ease are welcome this day.
The wind stops then turns around the old weathervane.
Lightning flashes; thunder crashes, rolling away.
Gather in these sounds while listening to the rain.
"The Rainy Day" by Longfellow, stirs the spirit.
Reading poems by candlelight, the power nixed.
One needs to take a moment - and relax a bit.
Liquid tickles the rain gauge for an inch and six.
Do not become depressed if dark, dreary, and cold.
Sun still shines above the clouds completing this chain.
Hence it is time to shake off the drops of the old!
Pleasure in the sounds when listening to the rain.
Thick steaks grilling and sizzling over hot charcoal.
Glancing reverberations' from puddles splashing.
Both sound the same at times, a wondrous measured toll.
The bright lightning and loud thunder keep on crashing.
The power back on now, more storms are on the way.
To find comfort in dark clouds, questions if I'm sane.
I can't expect the same of you, just this to say.
Soak up those noises heard, listening to the rain.
Copyright © Frank Simon | Year Posted 2007
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