A WET APRIL DAY

A WET APRIL DAY

Hear the rain trickle,

hear it fall down,

see how it forms like the

tears of a clown,

and then lies reflecting

in pools on the ground.

See the clown whimper

as his hollow joke falls

big pants no doubt hiding,

his minuscule balls,

and his sorrow, it echoes

down life's ancient halls....

And still the rain trickles

like it's run out of day,

like the green grass is greedy

but no sun's drying ray,

and I've watched as it's falling,

so sombre and grey...

she sits and she's reading,

a smile in her eyes,

a lovely perfection

and ignoring the lies

and the rain that is trickling

like tears from the skies.

Â© Peter Rogerson 09.04.12

Comments: 12

Diane Huizenga Apr 9, 2012, 10:33am UTC

Wonderful, nothing like the sound of rain.

Thanks for sharing with Surreal Circus

Peter Rogerson Apr 9, 2012, 1:36pm UTC

My pleasure, Diane.

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Ms Lee P. Apr 9, 2012, 12:13pm UTC

Very nice. I love rain but I don't like tears.

Peter Rogerson Apr 9, 2012, 1:37pm UTC

I feel very much the same as you, then.

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Cynthia C. Apr 9, 2012, 1:44pm UTC

very nice :)

Thank you so much for sharing with Sadies Points

Peter Rogerson Apr 10, 2012, 4:43am UTC

Thanks, Cynthia

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Anthony W Allsop Apr 9, 2012, 1:49pm UTC

We need rain as much (if not more) than we need the sunshine. We also have to think ourselves lucky that we don't get rain like that eight inches in one hour that Australia got recently. The UK don't get much more than that in a whole year!

Peter Rogerson Apr 10, 2012, 4:45am UTC

We don't get extremes of weather, and for that we would be grateful to the gods if there were any.

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Larry J. Apr 9, 2012, 3:58pm UTC

Neat photo! Well expressed thoughts in the poem, too. Yours are so easy to follow. That is very refreshing to me.

Peter Rogerson Apr 10, 2012, 4:46am UTC

I'a simple soul who doesn't particularly like obscurity, Larry

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Barbara Boden Apr 10, 2012, 11:11am UTC

What a lovely poem, Peter. I too love to listen to the rain, I often leave my back door open so I can hear the rain falling on the canopy above the door. Funnily enough my dogs also like to lie in the hallway when it is raining; I can only surmise they also like to hear it.
When my children were young we sometimes went walking in the rain (in the summer months), then back home to a warm bath followed by a picnic on a blanket on the floor (well it was too wet outdoors). Thanks for reviving these happy memories.

Peter Rogerson Apr 12, 2012, 6:51am UTC

Never underestimate the pleasure dogs find in ordinary things, very much like we do.
Inside the caravan a light rain sounds wonderful. A heavy rain, though, is so loud that it drives every thought out of the head!

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