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| Rain : Vincent Van Gogh |
When
in dark stormy nights we listen to Tagore’s songs we are compelled to look
inward to find the ones we can’t find elsewhere; the charm of Tagore’s words or
the marvel of monsoon it is we do not know.
In
this era of climate change we would like to see rains, clouds, thunders, storms
in words as well as in reality. I pray that monsoon reaches its destination and
is not lost in the middle of nowhere.
So our theme
today is Rain and everything associated with it, the colors, moods, fragrance,
blessings, and disasters. You might also write about the absence of rains if
you wish to.
We
read, in Japan they have more than fifty words for rain. I deeply appreciate
their amazing artistic mindset. In Japanese Gan is sweet and Yu is rain and as
a word Ganyu means a rain after a long drought. Houshanouu is radioactive rain.
Experience is birthing language.
Basho
writes of rain :
spring
rain
leaking
through the roof
dripping
from the wasp’s nest
A
couple of rain-poems :
Horses and Menin Rain by Carl Sandburg
Please link one poem that is your response to the material of this prompt. When you link your poem please visit other links in the spirit of the community
Thank you for the prompt Sumana - Jae
ReplyDeleteThank you Jae. Lovely to see you.
DeleteHello everyone! We are having wet days and cool weather in this rainy season of ours in India. I hope you are also having good weather where you are. Looking forward to reading your rain poems now. Smiles.
ReplyDeleteRain is a wonderful topic, especially in areas that are now prone to drought. The smell of petrichor always takes me back to childhood and my grandma's house. A smell like no other, just before the fat raindrops hit. Thanks for this prompt, Sumana. I look forward to reading the responses in our varied voices and locations.
ReplyDeleteThanks Sherry. At present we are enjoying our days of rain. It's decent till now. I hope it stays like this before it's time to say goodbye. I am enjoying the lovely responses. But as it's getting late I'll be visiting everyone tomorrow morning.
DeleteI am at a wonderful Quaker conference, and will read poetry around dinner time. Looking forward to it!
ReplyDeleteIt's bed time now for us. See you all tomorrow. Enjoy your day Susan.
DeleteThat is Susan ❤️
ReplyDeleteI thought I knew what a hard rain was until I lived in the Philippines. There I saw rain that made midwestern American rain look feeble! They don't have monsoons there AFAIK, but they do have a rainy season. I look forward to writing for this.
ReplyDeleteHere on the west coast in winter, we have deluges where the rain pounds down, roars, floods streets, comes in sideways on the westerly. Rain gear required. Smiles. I kinda love winter storms. So fierce.
DeleteSo lovely to see you Shay. Now I am looking forward to seeing the rainy season of the Philippines.
DeleteI love Basho.
ReplyDeleteBasho is my favorite too.
DeleteJae, Annell, Suzie--how beautiful and different your poems are! How frustrating for me not to be able to leave my admiration on your posts! I have to sign in for every Google comment (!), but yours won't even take my name. Still, I love the reading. I thank you!
ReplyDeleteThank you for this - Great prompt and hopefully i am somewhere near !
ReplyDeleteThank you Alan. Your poem has words of gold.
ReplyDeleteWe get monsoons here in the Valley in Arizona, which is definitely different than the rainstorms in western WA where I came from. A monsoon here can come and go abruptly, with sunshine on it's tails, but a deluge of rain in WA might slow but lingers on and on and you might not see the sun for weeks. I enjoyed this prompt! Thanks, Sumana!
ReplyDeleteThank you Jennifer for the beautiful poem. So lovely to see you.
DeleteSuzie your poem and illustrations are gorgeous...Can't leave a comment on your blog...Rall
ReplyDeleteWonderful prompt, Sumana; and I have enjoyed all of the wonderful contributions so far!
ReplyDeleteThank you Mary. I also enjoyed the lovely responses.
DeleteWhat a great prompt, Sumana, one whose very nature allows us to envision a variety of experiences! Thank you.
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