Rainfall
listen
of these hearts
with amplification
welcome a gentle thumb
tracing anticipation
from palpable pout
to passionate parting—
in deepening darkness
swallowing any trace of light,
tattooing every satisfied
surfaceso that not
a single shadow can cast even itself.how to exist
clouds drift
and dawn breaks
along the horizon,
once more—
that echo the rainfall–
once more.
16 thoughts on "Rainfall"
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Writing about the rain is very poetic. Great metaphor.
Thanks, John. We’ve sure had a lot of rain up north. Yesterday and today are the first few breaks we’ve had from it. Thanks for reading.
Visually, textually, this a beautiful poem. You’re using everything in your toolbox to write this one — alliteration, white space, fonts, point size, free verse — and it moves along so easily, every word falling like the rain.
Many thanks, Lee. I appreciate your kind words. Thank you for reading.
it’s like a companion piece to yesterday – this is how the flowers bloom <3
Arwen, you are brilliant! Truly. Thank you for reading. And yes, this is, in fact, how those flowers bloom. Perhaps it’s time for me to take a quick morning stretch? : )
Love your use of repetition and spacing to create a sense of progression.
Thank you, Karen. I’m glad you liked it. : )
This is a poem I could fall asleep to, thinking about that steady soft rain, how it soothes. I really enjoyed reading this.
Thanks, P.C. I’m glad you found it soothing. Thanks for reading!
Form and content fit together beautifully like rain and flowers. You really captured the randomness of raindrops in the visual words. “while a chin rests softly in a patient hand,” – yes!!
Thanks, Sylvia! I appreciate your kind words. Thank you for reading. 💜
You captured for me the quiet, steady rain echoing from a tin roof, also like the fun you had with spacing.
Thank you, Kim! I appreciate that you read this. The spacing was fun to play with, for sure.
beautiful shape and words. especially love:
each beat
of these hearts
swells (Only written the way you did it!)
Many thanks, Pam! 💜