Great Southern,
land, down under, wintry,
Spring rain, precipitation, gloom....
Drear our days,
Until sunshine appears!
Joyous, seeking shorts, swimmer liles,
Down the beach,
Aquatic centers thrive,
Pallid limbs suntanning, right now!
Fiery rainbow
Sunlight strikes
Sudden raindrops.
Snowy, slushy mess,
driving now a test,
snowy, slushy mess,
heart is in my chest,
snowy, slushy mess,
please be a quick guest,
snowy, slushy mess,
all snow would be best,
snowy, slushy mess,
sky, give it a rest!
‘cause this stuff is terrible.
spring
showers
sings in her
mellifluous
voice on the roof tops
aids the new birth
with sunshine's
gentle
love
© Harry J Horsman 2022
precipitation
twenty pots and pans sing tunes....
farm land plus house bought
Lesson learned on getting a building inspector or did we?
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Forgiveness visits
Lavender hips jitter in tulle anticipation
Ladies rub adjacent, influenced as fashion
Drought's torment collects gossiped prospect
Guilty sky's belated cry brings christening
Staggerers dignified by quenching's bequest
Limp of lethargy carries cables of aspiration
Nestled crystal beads reflect finest purple furs
Necklaces kaleidoscope demure worshippers
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podium leaning
weather swaying left or right
gravity awaits
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When the world is cold,Frost is gold.
Yet Empty silver still grows.
Have no control over what is to come of it.
Still,I am to stand in motion.
Oh what the rain covets most,a final host.
A soliloquy of my stance.
Voiceless is the song.
However,audible is its message.
Sing of the pouring rain.
Please do it not in vain.
Ice,a perfect touch.
Swallow your hypothermia.
Dance on its terrain.
We freeze all the same.
Soon the morning will await.
Until our tears flood the gates.
Reverse their flow,lose all control!
Until there is nothing.
Now rain goes to sleep,no voices are heard.
We have reached the end,a sonata alive.
C-louds are dark and gray
B-ecause the wide sky has shown
N-othing but rainfall.
Topic: Birthday of Cath B. Nacua (March 5)
Form: Acrostic Haiku
Behold no daylight,
After warm cloud covering.
Rain prepares to pour.
A Day of Precipitation
A window is a good place
To look out
When it rains beautiful to see
From a warm room
A bookshelf of old friends
Some remembered others
Rediscovered
So let it rain, rain, rain.
Based on the BBC news article "Diamond rain falls on Saturn and Jupiter"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24477667
Mighty Jupiter - king of planets
Noxious gasses form a blanket
Fearsome storming - red spot raging
Timeless tempest never aging
Lightning cracking - breaks methane
Sooty puff clouds fall like rain
Clumping forming - makes graphite
Dropping further losing height
Pressure rising carbon crush
Diamond snow in downward rush
Heat increasing gemstones melt
Further down as mist does pelt
To carbon ocean 'neath the sky
From boffins' sums in their mind's eye
NEVER venture outdoors when it's raining cats and dogs
It rained cats and dogs during a drought and the farmers were NOT amused
It rained cats and dogs and the county WORKERS were not amused
However they were grateful because there had been recent layoffs
Due to inflation, every time it rains it rains, quarters from heaven
When Gene Kelly sang in the rain he got arrested for disturbing the peace
So Donald O’Conner had to take over and HE got arrested for public intoxication
So they asked Debbie Reynolds and she said, ‘You have GOT to be kidding... I just got my hair done’
Every time it rains, it rains pe…Ouch (THAT’S gonna bruise)
Just my luck…It rained pennies from heaven and I forgot to turn my freekin' umbrella upside down
Due to inflation in now rains quarters from heaven (Dude, you seen the price of UMBRELLAS lately?)
Sure wish it would rain on somebody ELSE’S parade for a change
Once it HAILED on my parade (The floats sustained irreparable damage and there were minor injuries)
Nobody’s gonna rain on MY pa…(Uh, God…You forgot to clear this with Mother again didn't you?)
Submitted for:
‘Poem: Rainy Days’ sponsored by Leonora Galinta
Precipitation
The wall on the other side of the road used to be
full of translucent sunlight, and no shadow dared
to cast its evening spell before five o´clock.
It has been raining for weeks now, grey sky and
drizzle the wall looks unpainted like melancholy
seen in the eyes of the old.
See how the indoor light gives tear drops on
the window pane a tiny rainbow each, as to say
there will be a sunny wall someday.
Safety tip: NEVER venture outside when it’s raining cats and dogs
The last time it rained cats and dogs the county workers were NOT amused
It rained cats and dogs during a drought and the FARMERS were not amused
When Gene Kelly sang in the rain he got arrested for disturbing the peace
So Donald O’Conner had to take over and HE got arrested for public intoxication
So they asked Debbie Reynolds and she said, ‘You have GOT to be kidding... I just got my hair done’
Every time it rains, it rains pe…Ouch (THAT’S gonna bruise)
Just my luck…It rained pennies from heaven and I forgot to turn my freekin' umbrella upside down
Due to inflation in now rains quarters from heaven (Dude, you seen the price of UMBRELLAS lately?)
Sure wish it would rain on somebody ELSE’S parade for a change
Once it HAILED on my parade (The floats sustained irreparable damage and there were minor injuries)
Nobody’s gonna rain on MY pa…(Uh, God…You forgot to clear this with Mother again didn't you?)
5/27/2013
Francine’s contest
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