Umbrellas Poems

Let's Do The Chicken Splash Together

What are you all quacking about!
A little rain never hurt anyone!
Let's do the chicken splash together.

No raincoats or umbrellas are needed,
just a ducky spirit with attitude.
Do not reply if you are afraid to get wet,
or if you want to be a bore.

Now for some rain fun!
Put your right web foot in,
now put your left wed foot in.
Back up and do it again.
All together we will do the chicken splash,
one, two, three, now jump in the puddle.

Is everyone good and wet?
Then we did the chicken splash,
the ducky way.

Let the Life Under the Umbrellas

Let’s leave the cats
Thinking like cats,
Stretch and sleep,

Let’s leave the turtles,
Thinking like turtles,
Love the green salad,

Let’s leave the oranges,
Thinking like oranges,
With sweet orange juice,

Let the girls
Think like girls
With black rimmel on the eyes,

Let us listen
Soften thoughts
By Jean Sebastian Bach,

Let’s leave the flowers
In the wild
Thinking like flowers,

Let’s leave the French
Think like French people,
Take care of everything,

Let’s leave the sky,
All pink in Oregon,
All blue in Marseille,

Let’s leave the dogs
Bark like a dog.
Thinking that people are bad,

Let’s leave the table, 
Think like a table,
At the lunch hour.

Let’s leave the rabbit,
Think like a rabbit,
Being afraid of everything,
Stew with brown sauce,

Let’s leave the words
Think like words,
Write our poems,

Let’s give time
Slip through the fingers,
Thinking about tomorrow,

Let’s leave the sea
Go down to the sea,
Think like water,

Let the life,
Think like us,
That all ends one day,
Even love,

Let’s leave the cats,
Thinking like cats,
Stretch and sleep,

Let the life
Under the umbrellas,
Let’s all enjoy her.

Beach Umbrellas

Beach Umbrellas - Exotic mushrooms erupting from sand

Under the Colorful Umbrellas

When fairy ring is formed
Fairies we just swarm
Under these colorful umbrellas
We gleefully dance with our fellas

Hopping over the wet wood 
We play hide and seek with dudes
Soaring high in the air
We roam everywhere

Katydids with crickets hum
Crawling snails play drums
Millipedes do accumulate
dry leaves to accommodate

Vibrant flowers slugs hoard
To bedeck moss floors
And fire flies gracefully arise 
to lighten the dark place

Now everything is ready
To begin a night party
Eschewing the world's noise
Stealthily we enjoy

October 06 2021

Umbrellas

Useful on rainy days
  Underneath ashen skies
       Unleashed springs awaken;
             Upthrust in defiance.
                  Unobserved by others
                          Undercover kisses
                                 Utilise their shelter.


31.04.21


 ' Pleiades  U'  Contest sponsored by Kim Merryman

   syllable check by ear

Umbrellas

Umbrellas add color
Ultra Pink makes me wink
Ultramarine so blue
Umber dull for gray days
Unmellow yellow grand
Urobilin royal
Unite on rainy days

Umbrellas

I saw dreary rain today
Awake a dormant thought,
That rain empowers growth-
Something which cannot be bought.

Watch it cleanse a sinful sky,
And wash away all fears,
Bringing with it new hope
After shedding countless tears.

Rain 'tis not so popular
With those of us today,
Who wallow in our pride,
Or buy an expedient way.

Why keep out the rain, I thought,
The everlasting power?
Umbrellas of possession
Have caused us all to cower.

And now the rain is falling,
Yet few are getting wet;
Umbrellas shield the words
Of a Son He once beget.

Umbrellas

I walk on water,
one lucky person am I
In whimsy, I contemplate
dancing with the clouds
Just me and my umbrella
dreaming the impossible

Dreams start with a thought
from thoughts proceed lofty word 
just pretentious ideas
I write the words down
so I will never forget
the power, the joy of dreams

Words lead to actions
like like running and jumping
and plain walking and dancing
So let's start walking
comparing bright ideas
airing views, we will soon dance

Imaginations 
and visions fall down like rain
jumping all over the place
on our umbrellas
Running down the sides, dripping
we should turn them upside down

July 5, 2019;  revised July 21, 2019

A Rainy Day

The rain is raining all around my sister Bella
and me; pounding a rhythmic beat on top
of our pretty colorful umbrellas
as we hold them high, high above our heads.

Utter excitement virtually spreads.
Our spoiled hearts and spirits, begins to soar.
We are perfectly waterproof wearing
yellow and red raincoats and galoshes.
Wanting more, more rain to rain all-around,
hearing those raindrops falling to the ground.
Jumping up and down in puddles making
splish-splash sound wishing it will never stop.

The rain, the welcome cool, cool rain daring; 
jumping, giggling, and singing with pleasure.

As I fall down on the wet ground with a
big Kerplop! With a jubilant bark, Frasier
our dog runs up to me, paws on my chest
smothering me with wet kisses being a pest.

9/21/2018

Dancing Umbrellas

Last rainy day Bobby's dancing observation
About umbrellas seemed mystical revelation

Winds might have made bouncing umbrellas
Through four year old eyes look like funny fellas

Or a "Brella Ballet" pirouetting
On point like tops spinning

And Singin' in the Rain
Could be an accurate refrain

When I see him again
I'll ask him to explain

The Upside-Down Umbrellas

My dad made large upside-down umbrellas which I’m told
Won't keep the water above us from hitting us as we walk the road
But will hold the dirt and dust that's left of us as we corrode
Keeping it from falling and being washed away in the river below.  

Impenetrable and round canvases of black
They go in a hole underground with a rod attached
The rods have rocks serving as bases that suspend them above ground, in their place
And braces to keep the underground canvases open-face

As useless as they are in the rain today
We maintain the upside-down umbrellas and we quietly pray
They will keep us all dry one day.

Two Umbrellas

Two umbrellas hang and drip
Some puddles on the floor,
A brief reprieve, for in a bit,
We're heading out the door.

They look the same, like strawberries,
But differ in their size.
The smaller one is Hadley's*
And she loves it (no surprise).

For I remember my umbrella
When I was a kid.
Nothing made me feel grown-up
Like that umbrella did.

So in the pouring rain we'll walk,
Two berries held above,
Protected from the elements
By nylon and by love.

*my 2 1/2 year old granddaughter

Dancing Glass Umbrellas

translucent colours
                                    captured in umbrella dance
                                          amoebas painted


                                             June 1, 2016
                                               For Skat A
                                                Picture 5
                              Joined Poetry Soup on July 23, 2015

Myriads of Umbrellas

Myriads of umbrellas 
like I’ve never seen
floating upward brilliant red,
yellow, pink and green.

Many happy thoughts must be
in the springtime breeze,
or bright hope could not ascend
high above the trees!

Opened up, hope shelters us
from the rains of gloom.
Losing sight of happiness 
would be mankind’s doom.

Peace and love must guide our thoughts
so we might see rise
myriads of umbrellas
through all earth’s blue skies!


In 7/5 Trochee, rhyming style poem

Written 2/26/2014 by Andrea Dietrich For Visual number 4

shown in the SYMBOLISM : THE UMBRELLA Poetry Contest of nette onclaud

Forgotten Umbrellas

Umbrellas become afterthoughts
once the rain has cleared away,
And are left behind like discarded lovers
whose partners have moved on for a brighter day.

Held close and tight when the need was there;
opening up to let you in;
Cast aside when confidence has been restored;
forgotten like an embarrassing sin.

And yet, they hang around;
Waiting for the next lover to come along
who needs protection from the coming storm,
prepared to repeat their lovelorn song.

Are you the long-lost lover or the umbrella hung upside down?
Do you give your all to protect those you love or do you run around?

by Joe Flach for Nette Onclaud's "SYMBOLISM: THE UMBRELLA" contest.
written and posted 2/22/14
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