Rain
white noise
drops dance on glass
music from the pond
as water disturbs water,
the stream discourses through the pasture
a composition of questions: why, how,
what is the meaning of such eloquence?
Evening
the air is clear
the sky immense with stars and silence.
I walk to the pasture.
The stream carries on with its rhetoric
murmuring after answers for questions
too profound to be answered by rain;
yet this place,
incandescent under a burning moon,
feels like one.
First Snow by Mary Oliver is the inspiration for this poem…hers is a profoundly beautiful poem
Questions In Rain
12 Friday Apr 2013
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I felt this poem in my heart and soul, Ron. Well done!
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thank you Tyler. Mary Oliver’s book American Primitive is full of poems that rock my heart and soul…she is a genius at connecting the reader with the natural world
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