Here’s a poem in response to a prompt to write about rain.  Living in a location that has quite a lot of rain I appreciate it’s different moods (which make me think about writing an entirely different poem! – but this is late already), but not always its constancy!  I’ve used a Kennings format for this, which gathers up lines of two word descriptors, and placed them in rhyming couplets.  Of course a poet may make a few adjustments…

Rain

Hurried Shower
Duck-in bower

Syncopated rhythms
‘Cake left-out-in-em’ *

Plan wrecker
Flower bedecker

Stay in-doors
Let it pour

Settled in (like)
Original sin

Thorough soak
Ain’t no joke

Pounding rain
Flooding drains

Letting up?
Please stop!

Misting only
Veiled – holy

© 2016 – Laurel Archer

*  If you’re lost as to where the allusion to this stanza comes from, consider yourself fortunate, the 1970’s music wasn’t all fabulous, but still can get lodged in your inner ipod.  The allusion is to a song entitles Macarthy Park written and sung by Richard Harris. Others covered it, including Donna Sommer (not her best moment).  Look it up, relive a moment from the 70’s, get an earworm looping in your personal background music.  I prefer the spoof renditions — Carol Burnett did one which I think might have been the way I was first introduced to the song…and SCTV also did one.  Have fun!

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