FREE VERSE Poem: Sonnet when it’s been raining, by William Joel

There’s lots of rain outside; been raining since
I woke. And now I sit and write, and hear
the gentle tap each drop produces when
it strikes our roof. Just rain, no thunder near,
no flashes in the sky; just water pouring
free from clouds, all thick and wet, pale gray
and yielding only so much light to shore
up dreams of sunlit afternoons. A day
when hugging cups of cooling tea is all
I plan to do, along with digging through
a book stack, waiting for its turn to fall.
For just as rain falls from the sky, so too
my words fall from my pen, and merge to pools
upon the page, for splashing in by fools.

10/12/12
10/19/12

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