Short Downpouring Poems

Summer
Oppressive heat
Field crops withering brown
Farmers praying for downpouring
Cloudburst

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Brian Strand's 1,2,3,4,5 Line Poetry Contest
August 16, 2021

written May 25, 2021...

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She knows who she wants, so she goes after her man.
Able to convince everyone, she persuades as she can.
He is on an island, so she steals a Wyandotte’s canoe.
He tries to escape, but she ties him up with a lace from her shoe.

I am not interested, he says, I am taken, he lies.
She knows it is not the truth, she has talked to his guys.
She and his mother are in this together.
She marries him a month later, in downpouring weather....

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The overpouring raindrops, the incessant rain outside was telling me continuously,
She was a story to nay sayer
and he was a theme park to symbolic haifa.

Baha'i temple and a raincoat.
People get soaked there.
With theocracy, bureaucracy, faithfulness, faithlessness, midlife crisis and many more like all these.
We and the downpouring sounds outside, are a drawback, still
That heavenly sky is still a striker hand of an indoor game!...

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