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Rain Poems | Examples of Rain Poetry

Rain Poems - Examples of all types of rain poetry to share and read. This list of rain poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of rain poetry. This list of works about rain is an excellent resource for examples on how to write rain poems.
Facades Dying Star
Bird with feathers of fire, phoenix metronome, bursts on the edges of the atmosphere. Crumbling to dust, ash and powdery bones, fore a chance never truly appears. A velleity is made at her shooting tomb, deities will not honor this...Read the rest...
Categories: rain, art, bird, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Peek-A-Boo
A shy sun plays peek-a-boo with clouds clogging the sky and barring its path. Dyed in shades of ash, they gather like sheep, clustering overhead; grazing on blue skies until melancholy grey drips droplets of rain....Read the rest...
Categories: rain, image, imagery, metaphor, nature,
Form: Verse
Her Comes The Rain
I've watch the rain falls Silently; I sense the wind The leaves are falling....Read the rest...
Categories: emotions, nature, rain, silence,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member MORE LIKE THE RAIN
When I look around at a divided country…a divided world I wish we could all be more like rain… that falls on everyone and everything equally… on the people, the mountains, the rivers…and the plains… For the rain understands when...Read the rest...
Categories: rain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member GNRT DAY 34 THE RAIN
I woke up to a gentle tapping on our window pane…. I thought it was a bird…turns out it was the rain. Deborah ,unaffected by the soft tap, tap, tapping on our window pane and still in the...Read the rest...
Categories: rain, travel,
Form: Rhyme



RAIN AGAIN
RAIN AGAIN As the summer season takes over from spring With limited hope for the warmth it may bring A changeable climate like ours Delivering regular showers Means that a constant damp affects everything ...Read the rest...
Categories: rain, summer,
Form: Limerick
Nadir
Reaching soil from from one end of the earth to the end. Anointing nutrients of life to growing existence. Insisting on equal distribution and fairness of quality. Nesting in the clouds until its due time. This or that...Read the rest...
Categories: rain,
Form: Acrostic
Monsoon
Skies weep at the farewell of the Fall On window panels teardrops crawl To the mother birds, chicks call Thunder and lightning brawl In storms, weak trees fall Wet lame lambs bawl Rainbows sprawl Wolves waul Squall ...Read the rest...
Categories: nature, rain, seasons,
Form: Nonet
The Rain
I f*cking love the rain. Storms are even better. I love to hear of your canceled plans As you stand there, getting wetter I adore the miserable faces it brings To everyone but me I ache for the sound...Read the rest...
Categories: rain, angst, depression, funny, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member raincoats
when heavens open rains send everyone but ducks looking for raincoats...Read the rest...
Categories: animal, rain,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Morning Rain
Have to say, the morning rain picks me as a trustee Rather often latterly, and he states the same Silly point that it’s all staged, anything we see It’s a trick of mind, he says, we...Read the rest...
Categories: feelings, morning, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Summer Is Gone
Scorching Sun in severe Summer brought draught with arid field. Rainy season followed, when cracked soil about to cry. ...Read the rest...
Categories: rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Summer Is Gone
When summer is gone Clouds start their move with a scurry As if to attend to some urgent work Taking their move as a harbinger, Birds and animals reset their homes And preserve foods in secret stores Get ready,...Read the rest...
Categories: rain,
Form: Free verse
Walk With Me
Walk With Me Tonight the storm rages. Is it worse outside  Or inside my head. The thunder threatens  To shatter the window panes. My insanity threatens To take my life. As the lightening Slashes against the night, My tears fall faster than The rain plummets from...Read the rest...
Categories: death, emotions, goodbye, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cream of Crop Showers
“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.” —Langston Hughes Cream of Crop Showers The world seems smaller, inside within quarters, no sun. But...Read the rest...
Categories: rain,
Form: Couplet

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