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Best Rainwater Poems

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Premium Member Rainwater
A rain barrel near the house
While the rain is pouring
The rain barrel catches raindrops
Filling the barrel up to the top

Rainwater is useful
It is good for...

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Categories: rainwater, rain, water,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member O April
O April
how I’ve longed for your return
to breathe new life 
into this gnarled body..
for these roots to be unfettered 
from the grasping earthen frost -...

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Categories: rainwater, appreciation, april, beauty, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Final Frontier
Death, the final frontier?

A nest is round.

Our nest the Earth is round like all the stars and planets.

All things are orbital, even time and space.

Let...

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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rainwater, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Making Art With the Universe
Introspection 

suspends in dark blue amnion
as rainwater blooms a reflection pool
an oasis of energy for contemplative embryo;
in stillness I grow.. my pulse a flowing stream...

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Categories: rainwater, growth, introspection, love, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wounded Sigh
In sepia foliage's of falsified fantasies,
cursed by haunting hornets stinging 
with honeyed painted lies,
her mind was like a matriarch of metaphors.

An inflorescent seed buried in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rainwater, analogy, angst, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Gift of Rain
What blessed and sweet relief,
Is the long awaited heavenly rain.
For the many people, a too hot
Heat, the scorching sun has slain.

Water is Divine and sustains...

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Categories: rainwater, blessing, faith, rain, rainbow,
Form: Rhyme
Sunflower
The rose was fragile in its beauty,
Its hue the colour of romance novels and warm tea,
But these flowers aren’t flickers of flames in winter,
They were...

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© Merel Vdb  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rainwater, death, death of a
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aberfan Disaster 21st October 1966
If you ever visit South Wales do go and see 
The location of what was an awful tragedy
Famous for the wrong reasons the town of...

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Categories: rainwater, memorial, natural disasters,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Clack of Time
Married for eternity to the cool earth.
So difficult to think about my beautiful flower.
Surrounded by jagged rocks and cold rainwater.
Your sweet petal skin forged from...

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Categories: rainwater, for her,
Form: Rhyme
4ml
She gave me a dry idea
Then asked me if I wanted to join her
To go dancing in the rainwater
Only for me to wake up
And find...

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Categories: rainwater, devotion, friendship, happiness, hope,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member I Have Little to Say
I have little to say
as an avalanche of maple
spills over the back fence
and water weighted branches, 
heavy with the perfume of rain,
bow and bend 
in...

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Categories: rainwater, rain, summer,
Form: Free verse
An Autobiography of a Banyan Tree
I am a Banyan tree,
More than hundred years old,
Near a beautiful lake I stand,
In the heart of Mother Nature.

During my life span I have seen,
Days...

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Categories: rainwater, imagination, nature, nature, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Fragile Earth
The arrogance of humanity
Insists some piece of it we own,
But fragile Earth on which we tread,
God gives us only as a loan.
As we impose our...

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Categories: rainwater, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Requiem For the Wolf of the North
As the days turned to night we would find ourselves pondering our futures
The sky was red in the west as the sun set upon our...

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Categories: rainwater, sea,
Form: Narrative
Have You Ever Seen a Commie Drink a Glass of Water
Vodka
That is what they drink
never water
on no account will a Commie ever drink water
and not without good reason
water that's what I'm getting at
water is the...

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© Nigel Fox  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rainwater, humor, malayalam, science, yellow,
Form: Free verse

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