Beth (A Good Day for the Rain)

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Open Poetry #23

Beth (A Good Day for the Rain)

ptwils165
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since 2002-11-29

Posts 50

0 posted 2002-12-01 12:48 PM

The last two lines of a sonnet
we read in seminar
escape in a rush of the clear night air.
Now home, wrapped warm by a coat and scarf,
chin-down in the wind.

A feeling of life; fresh, on-the-move;
each stride achieving
an energy, a pulse,
like racing through storms in summer.

Now the showers.

I burst past the shrub on a lamp-lit corner,
a soft sprinkler to each passer-by,
not noticing the latest addition of water
flick against my face, and soaking wet hair.
I wanted to stand here, drenched all night
without worries of a changing day.

By the light of a window
I started to cry -
miracle-tears,
lost in the deluge of the street;
but warmer drops falling against an upturned mouth
still smiling through the rain.

She smiled at me today, I thought.
Today was a good day for rain.

[This message has been edited by ptwils165 (12-01-2002 12:50 PM).]

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

1 posted 2002-12-01 01:07 PM

ptwils165
Wonderful write, The poems today are Sundays best.

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

2 posted 2002-12-01 01:15 PM

Ah yes Sy, there are some Sunday
highlights, and you and I seem to
be finding them...

Very good Pete.

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