A Sudden Downpour

Rain beats down on the window pane As the flood gates of Heaven suddenly open It is pouring out in torrential flow Like a Reservoir, all at once broken It has come down as a welcome respite To fan away the humid sweltering heat It falls in drops and flows in rivulets Washing the dust of summer drought With a sudden burst from the weight laden clouds It lashes down in steam and fury Plummeting to form ripples in puddles And filling pools and ponds in hurry In slanting sheets, it almost pounds Flooding roads and making puddle Gushing through pipes and rushing down drains Water floods, causing men to waddle Rain has its abode in heavens so high And hides behind clouds of mournful gloom In silver strings, it spans the Earth And cleanses the plants in resplendent gleam Sudden is the wind, coming to shoo away the clouds And the sky is once more cerulean blue As the music stops and the humdrum stills The water seeps, giving no evident clue. After an angry couple’s furious fight, As the house goes back to an uncanny calm, The rain has vanished, leaving little trace Cooling the Earth and causing no harm A Brian Strand Rime Poetry Contest Sponsor - Brian Strand