Rain Sonnet Poems

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love.

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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Tanked temps pools inky smears ere striking lights,
nightstand...

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Joy of pleasure, a child of poor parents,
Bliss alone founts from a perpetual spring,
Joy fancies scores of fond uncles and aunts, 
Never lasts long the...

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We needed to evacuate because
the sandbags we put down were not enough
to hold the rising tide; how bad it was.
We had to flee our homes,...

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"The world is God's pure mirror clear to eyes when free from clouds within"Rumi

Yellow sunrise illuminates night sky
It chases darkness away to the west
Goldfinch sent...

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To think that raindrops are the sight of dreams,
For countries parched forever in a drought,
Scarce rainfalls are an awe to blissful beams,
Of people used to...

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Good Friday night, and haunted by the cross 
The body in the darkness sends the mind
To go out searching for him. Blood and moss
The crown...

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What The Roses Don’t Say
by Michael R. Burch

Oblivious to love, the roses bloom
and never touch ... They gather calm and still
to watch the busy insects...

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And, never cede shall be the battle cry
as London braces ‘neath a screaming tide.
Though flames from hell kept falling from the sky, 
tenacity was not...

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Solid dew pearls ornament the leaves
Shivering winter pushes sun into sleeves
Moon glances through the icy blizzard
Bearing it as a brave wizard

Sky waters the land with...

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Eternal rainfall spring gardens suffer
Alluring snowdrops drowned in sea of mud
Water deluge cascading down gutter
Daffodils suffer because of the flood.

There is sadness about springtime quagmire
With...

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An empty heart cries through the longest night
the only sound heard is cold tears that fall
where pain rises to a terrible height
and no one answers...

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Quote -- "life is a perpetual yesterday for us"--Alice Sebold

On nature's trail, a winter's sunlit stroll,
Leafless sentinels, tall trees stand with grace,
Aging growth an emblem...

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Universe in its miniature form! A little world! 
A wise zoologic entity in its entirety!
Consciously conscientious and spiritually swirled
Physico psychic myriad matchless variety

Possessing physical, subtle,...

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In hope of gain if man bears pain,
Clouds gain just as to drain as rain,
Crooked, but roads still look ahead,
A gold chain binds no less...

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Colorful leaves covered the hills and plains,
Like stars in scarlet, yellow and orange;
Everywhere are bright trees boasting in chains
Of hues spreading rapidly in wide range.

Everyone...

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