For some, old time wanes;
May yours continue to wax–
Those waiting need you:-
Keep sowing the word;
Let shared guidance be reaped–
Your wisdom flowing:-
You have been chosen;
Don’t fear the chosen blessing–
Let the word be reaped:-
Keep the vibe vining…
Let it flow every day…
Your cistern pouring…
From God’s given well,
Keep bucketing its waters;
Splashing waiting minds:-
Raindrops
Small, water
Trickling, falling, pouring
Drizzle, rainfall, shower, downpour
Bucketing, hailing, drenching
Icy, cold
Sleet
Splish, splash, splosh
Can't see your tears when in the rain
Drizzle and downpour awash
Raining cats and dogs insane
Spitting, torrential, dribble in raindrop town
Bucketing down, chucking down
Pouring down, pelting down
In raindrop town
The sky flashes all around you
Cycling in the rain at its best
Miserable at its worst, thru and thru
I enjoy cycling sooo much, me at·test
During bucketing down, pouring down
All along, riding in raindrop town
As the rain comes bucketing down
Cleansing impurities left behind
Root vegetables will surely drown
While sanitizing corruption of mankind
Fertilizing Seeds surely drown and left behind .
Rain, rain come again and again
For the grass shall grow and cows are fed
Farmers enhancing their capital gain
While slaughtering for food and flesh bled
Their capital gain come from cows fed.
Rain waters has stopped for now
A superlative rainbow displayed on my town
All are fed, the sheep the goat and the cow
As the innocents naively dancing around
Corruption of mankind keeps bucking down
Grass that crackles underfoot
Arid rusty land that’s parched to the core
TO
Lush green meadows, teaming with life
Bodies of liquid gold that feed nature
Earth hard as concrete, riddled with cracks
Wind gusts that bring to life dust devils
TO
Fat droplets of rain, bucketing from the Heavens
Creeks, lakes, ravines – their cup runneth over
Cattle grazing on nothing, their skeletons protrude
An effort to breathe as their bodies surrender
TO
Cattle at play, Mumma’s and babes
Food aplenty, provides energy and life
Craggly rocks, rigid and sharp
A treeless stairway to heaven
TO
Rocks once sharp, now coated in green slimy moss
A cascade from Heaven brings rainbows galore
Tall buildings, bright lights and millions of people
A cacophony of voices, chaos and pollution
TO
Wide open spaces, a clear view to the skies
Stars shine subtly, the silence is deafening.
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©copyright Juanita Torr
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Everyday of our no-stop lives we fail to see our fragility
We ignore the vulnerability of our world…living in sandcastles
Carefree and pompous we build our illusion with a grand vanity
Knowing the price but ignoring the danger…bucketing out sandcastles
Digging moats to keep problems out and fool our comforts blindly
Still we forget the cycle of tide approaching…that erodes away sandcastles
The waters crest upon our walls and devolve us all to our rudimentary
As we numbly stand watching the sea taunting…licking away sandcastles
With passing time the warring oceans recede her brigands hide away her spoils
The cycle completing the soft grains painted smooth…once holding sandcastles
Returning in number to re-polish the mirror that holds the negative and vein
With shovel in hand and a crass brazen will…rebuilding old sandcastles
At season approach the fury disregarded we admire our crayoned hard
landscapes
Destined for ruin with blind futility we keep building…unbalanced ever-yielding
sandcastles.
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