Rain Rispetto Poems

Sitting by the window drinking my coffee
Watching the rain falling from dull leaden skies.
It’s as if a gray drape is drawn about me
And I no...

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Diphylleia grayi, transparent by rain;
Seeing you turn before me to gorgeous bone 
Summons away my internal marrows pain
Patience, the clouds will fade; you're never alone;
Bending...

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tender buds sprout on persuasive branches, spring
all the birds, tremble with anticipation
most gather round the feeder while others sing
hungry souls are enthralled by God’s creation

wistful...

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Through white lattice, out on the porch in August
Fog surrounds, rain dripping from oak leaves, plop
Dew-soaked silvery grass longs to wanderlust
But alas, 'tis stuck in...

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Mother Earth now brings melody of rain fall 
Sounding out blessings, quenching thirsty parched land
Such brings music to my soul while I do scrawl
Praise lyrics,...

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"The sounds of Earth is the music of my soul." 


All woes and cares of the day I cast aside.
I'm sunken deep into the balcony...

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In my thoughts there floats an island tranquil, warm

    That is sometimes sunny, sometimes sweet with rain

     ...

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My place has no ceiling but an azure sky,
where sunshine rain and wind washes over me;
in winter I gather up the snow and sigh,
my mind...

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Pohutukawa red bristled rain falling

              Drifts down sienna cliffs floats on azure...

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Powder blue cloudless skies, long warm breathless days
with fresh smells of honeysuckle and jasmine
outdoor cooking, barbecues forge smokey haze,
new places, adventures, things to imagine,
morning chorus...

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SUMMER RISPETTO

Each evening rain clouds wrung out and put on line
to dry out in the blistering fever sun.
The twilight child bubbles up with tears and...

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Hot arid summer, I yearn for cooling rain
this endless heat wave; my once lush lawn’s now brown
and from the use of sprinklers I must refrain
we...

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SUMMER SWALLOW

The scene of spring floats for a while in the air
for summer to see the last hues of flowers,
for under the blazing sky they’d...

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Yesterday, I saw my first tulip this spring,
and a smile instantly bloomed deep in my heart.
Today, I heard a red-breasted robin sing,
imploring Winter's wretched winds...

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Summer Rain

      In the softening light of dull rain swept days,
      A blessed interlude from...

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