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Mid Century Rain
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Mid Century Rain |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
30 days hath September… Rain falls easily from low clouds A straight splatter of drops on asphalt Puddles slowly in low places till in an lethargic spill It finds the grates of drains to make its way Somewhere along the river then to sea Counting Fridays that are an agony Of bare limbs and cold to come 49 hummingbirds sing a low accolade to words Spread among the birch and hackberry Waiting to be bound by leaves A buried sin of dreams layered on the stony soil No one reads but the wind Strip the buttons down and stand Before a naked fire to warm the skin The soul lies deeper and is rarely touched but in passing Of minuets recited on the glass Or along the needled bark of twigs it is the bones that last to rest alone the body an abuse of chilled hands and knots wrapped in selfish want Come the passing sun and moon to hear The aria sung deep in throat of tenured limbs While a rustle of feet among the sharpened blades of glass Cuts a moments silence in twain of Mass Where well tapered candles sit in pools of wax And the liturgy of benevolence is murmured softly Deep within the stone October has 31 And rain here falls straight to wet dark days Shortened still by tilt of sun and clouds Leaving the sheets of bed changed to remove the stains Of a warmer leaving as lust spilled when it came The late storms to pummel the curves Horizons evolve in slow rise and fall Of longer nights And of dreams turned into Grimm tales Told to frighten the chrysanthemum into Blushing slight red along the quill of stem Before a litany of syllables Is whispered as soft down to bed the flesh in used and tattered wings The rain falls straight this day To puddle a slow rise in low areas Before in a lethargy of spill It runs my thoughts To you |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
ahhhh....I remember this rainstorm: ) |
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katahdin Senior Member
since 2010-07-01
Posts 1196ME. In the Shadow of the Mt. |
I can feel the rain falling and it gave me a chill. Kat >^..^< |
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Amaryllis Senior Member
since 2010-05-20
Posts 1306Mi now |
Beautiful, beautiful! ~A |
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Nocturnal Pulse Member
since 2010-08-12
Posts 84Australia |
Beautiful imagery, i love poignant endings, this certainly delivered. |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
Ms Belle, yes, nothing new to your eyes..you are kind to remember. thank you |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
Kat.. the rain can indeed be chill and when the season turns towards winter, it seems to bring reflection along with it as another time of warmth passes by.. many thanks for the eyes onthis, and your kind words. |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
Amaryllis... those words are not ones I use when I think of what I scribble, so I am indeed honored that someone might find them in any of my offerings here.. thank you, sincerely for such high praise |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
Nocturnal... many thanks for the kind words.. |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
quote: Oh, this touches me deeply. I read the poem last night and read it again now and find it even more captivating. Love, Margherita |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
Ms Margherita.. I am humbled you found something that might touch you in this... my thanks for the eyes and the kind words you left |
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The Lady Member Rara Avis
since 2005-12-26
Posts 7634The Southwest |
ah but for a drop of rain and a warm voice and hand "Strip the buttons down and stand Before a naked fire to warm the skin" this is one fine poem |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
Lady, I've been in the places where a dropof rin was rare..treasured, just as the touch of a warm hand should be.. many thanks for the look in..and the kind words ma'am. |
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Sunkissed Senior Member
since 2002-12-03
Posts 610 |
Your poetry still has the power to move the heart. Beautifully written. ~Sunkissed  |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
Thank you Ms Sunkissed one... your words are exceedingly kind.. |
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BluesSerenade Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549By the Seaside |
Oh I do love your ending, and everything leading up to it. Your poetry is so alive, so vivid and emotional. I need to be in the mindset to leave a proper reply, as I think you are right up there with some of the all time great poets. I always come away touched by your complexity and compassion for the written word. |
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Klassy Lassy Member Elite
since 2005-06-28
Posts 2187Oregon |
If I had a book of your poetry, I would wear it out. The images move my mood inward to vulnerable lispings and whispers and longings in the solitary echoes of thoughts in the calander of life. I move in the rhythms of the rain as I read. I like, too, the way you used words to travel, and you also make me wonder at the meanings I miss in metaphor for the ones not so commonly used, and my natural curiosity stirs. |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
Ms Blues.. you honor me with such words..and I amm sure I do not deserve thepraise.. still I thank you.. sincerely for finding something in my scribblings to enjoy and for saying so.. |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
Lassy... Such kind words... I thank you ma'am..and am honored to hear such praise from you many many thanks... |
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