Writing inspired by the SWC creative writing prompt:
How do you feel about the rain? Do you enjoy strolling in it with your umbrella held high? Have you ever whirled about in it when it breaks the summer heat? Can you recall listening to it pattering on a tin roof or trickling down a gutter? Write a poem titled “Rain”.
The Many Faces of Rain
By Janice Cutting
The tender, wispy, first showers of spring rain
Coating each tendril and each tiny hair with gentle mist
As soft as a breeze, as light as breath.
Freshening, renewing, it feels nourishing.
Then stronger, bolder more direct drops
Still soft, still tender, but permeating everything
Pooling in your soul, coating your skin
Deepening, fulfilling, it feels everlasting.
And then the persistent, heavy sheets of rain
A sky-high curtain of water dancing in the wind
With you in every step you take, soaking through your every layer
It has no end and no beginning
And finally the angry, frozen bites of rain
Your face contorted with the pain of it
Fragments ricochet, exploding in dramatic fits of energy
A fury to tear your heart apart, then silence.
Rain, like Love
Love that Jan. I recognise all that rain, so beautifully described