by stephen berwaldt
Member since:
September 30, 2009

Summer Shower

August 19, 2012 09:17 AM UTC (Updated: August 19, 2012 09:18 AM UTC)
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Summer Shower


like a welcome shower

your soul descends to bless

this thirsty earth I am

no part of me you do not touch

‘til I am damp with you

soaked to the skin

you possess me

seeping into every pore

wash me unbelievably

like a bath, you imbue

sweet fragrant clean

heart and soul

I dry you gone

but you’ll return, I know,

to love me again

with soothing, winsome wetness

 

Comments: 6

Diane Huizenga Aug 19, 2012, 9:20am UTC
beautiful
Ann Marcaida Aug 19, 2012, 1:44pm UTC
This really does give one the feeling of sitting in the rain and getting soaked. And, to quote my poetry coach, "Oh, give me the storm"!
Len Maxwell Aug 19, 2012, 2:28pm UTC
I like Ann's analysis: it's spot on.

Now featured on Gather’s Luminous Writers & Artists.
Bernard C. Aug 20, 2012, 1:47am UTC
Rainy days can be very soothing in many ways - in good company can be magnificent :-) Nice write - I do like the photo as well :-))

Thanks for sharing and submitting to
The Surreal Circus.
elizabeth evans Aug 20, 2012, 7:39pm UTC
The thirsty earth needs to go to the nearest pub to quench that dry, itchy throat....then to the nearest Bathhouse to bathe that sweaty body.
Granny Janny Aug 22, 2012, 7:31pm UTC
Totally wet poem. Love it. Featured on Poet's Weekly Muse.

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