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Posted: Friday Aug 16, 2024

Rain

The day I decide the second Poetry Shelf theme will be rain – and I still have Hone Tuwhare singing his sublime rain poem in my head – there is a sudden deluge of rain slam. Again we lose power out west, and I am sitting in the morning gloom with the slanting storm, musing on how much I love rain poems. Whether it is there in the kinetic water dance on the lawn, in the bulging black clouds in the wintry sky, or a spiral of metaphorical possibilities.

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