Rain Note Poems

Rainfall from the heavens

Flashing lights on the horizon

Tapping drops from the skies on frilly rooftops

Whooshing splashes on leafy greens

Pit-a-pat...pit-a-pat...!, rhythmic sounds on rusty metals.

 

Grey...

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Pray, spare this man of a rare calibre, 
Fine, let him prove how good he’s as singer.

Soon as Malhar was sung, rain cooled the breeze,
Leaves...

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When it comes, you will know it; there will be no doubt.
Flee to the mountains; don't gather a thing.
Alas, for the one who is pregnant...

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O the old poetry!
When hard times meant something
and uncertainty was eternal.
Words of wonder from a stirring spirit,
now gospel to yesteryear's testament.
The rain wet pine once...

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On the moist lips of a fragrant rose,
I found her in a precarious state;
Shivers ran through her lithe frame.
An icy chill and the hesitant drops...

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Single Note     					©   Christopher Murphy


There’s a single note in a symphony
Without which the music has no sound,
Yearning for harmony,...

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Didn't I love you  from one end  to another
exactly how  you were created
so wild and wanting  all the attention  all...

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"One day while resting in the store,
I saw you striding through the door.
You seemed a kindly youngster who
Would know just how to treat a shoe.
Though...

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cherry blossoms fall
confetti cast to the wind
tumbling to the ground

orange koi swimming
summer rain upon the pond
lotus of soft blush

bamboo whispering
their voices sing at twilight
serenade the...

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(This poem is basically the note that I'll leave when I die)

On a Monday morning,
Your souls walk with gloom.
Put on your black dresses,
Newborn flowers won't...

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Did I ever tell you
how beautiful you are?
Casually, one morning
(with the bathroom door ajar)
as I said we need more toothpaste,
or I’m off at quarter-to,
did I...

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BASE NOTE

In gray and moist banks of wet promised bliss, 
we watch the clouds scowl in ominous pout. 
Their gray heads collide in bumps that...

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To whom it may concern
Don’t be shocked what you are about to learn
In any case, this is a suicide note
The last thing on this earth...

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Betrayed I feel, because I fall, 
Not in love but the heartbreaking of all. 
Faster than my heartbeat, 
You creep over my unconquered wall.
Friendship and...

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In the musical note 
I fly, lulling the torments 

Then asleep leave it there. 

Like a dancer I run to meet joy, 
Dancer without wings...

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