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The Dance of the Rain
May 20, 2013
Tears of angels from above
Harmoniously, gracefully
Caressing, cradling
Tip-tap, drip-drop, plop
Melodically dancing
On the empty streets
Tip-tap, drip-drop, plop
Playing a soft, calming tune
The roof, it's musical drum
Ends, it's graceful dance
Deathly still, peaceful silence
Once again restored
© Terrin C., Humboldt, IA
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This article has 14 comments.
ChocolateLove SILVER said...
on May. 31 2013 at 5:22 am
Hahaha :) thank you so much :D.
ChocolateLove SILVER said...
on May. 31 2013 at 5:21 am
Thank you :D
cassiopeia BRONZE said...
on May. 30 2013 at 8:31 pm
Wow, I love your delicate way of discribing the rain. Reading this I can't help but picturing a rainy autumn afternoon with a nice blanket and a cup of hot chocolate :D Really love this poem! Keep posting your work ;)
ChocolateLove SILVER said...
on May. 27 2013 at 1:14 pm
I'm so glad that you like it :D
Helena_Noel BRONZE said...
on May. 27 2013 at 1:03 pm
This is beautiful. I am always enraptured by rain, and anything pertaining to it. The last two stanzas of it, especially.
ChocolateLove SILVER said...
on May. 27 2013 at 12:52 pm
Thank you :)
RoyalCorona SILVER said...
on May. 27 2013 at 10:37 am
So beautiful! I love the rain and this poem speaks to all those rain lovers!
ChocolateLove SILVER said...
on May. 27 2013 at 2:44 am
Thank you :D
Rebecca.xx BRONZE said...
on May. 26 2013 at 5:34 pm
Wow. Great haiku. Such a simple topic, yet beautiful. I liked how the poem seemed hopeful and peaceful, but deep as well. Good work!
ChocolateLove SILVER said...
on May. 26 2013 at 11:58 am
Wow, thank you so much. I can't believe that my haiku was compared to Robert's Frost "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". I am sooo glad that you liked it :D
Haha. I love this poem a lot. When I woke up this morning, the skies were chucking it down with rain, and so I went out onto the porch to listen to music and check my teenink and stuff. I have to say, I read your poem maybe, 50 times or something like that. It perfectly fit the mood of the rain, and that just shows how well you conveyed your ideas, feelings, and mood of the rain. Also, I love the last line, the coda "Deathly still, peaceful silence, one again restored." I like how the use of the word 'deathly' in that one line changed the entire poem. First we saw words like 'soft' and 'calming' and then out plops this word, deathly and the reader gets this whole creepy feeling like "what the heck just happened to the rain?" Almost like the rain was deadly in the end, or something crazy like that. A poem that gave me a similar idea was 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost. You should check it out, and see what I'm talking about. In one of the verses he says something like "the darkness is peaceful' or something, and the whole mood of the poem changes, which also happened in your poem. Anyways, great job on the poem. You should be very proud of your work, and write on!
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