Rain

Cherry

By Parson Thru

Fri, 13 Sep 2013
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9 comments
 

 

Rain is pouring down

between the platforms

 

A drum-roll on the metal roof

A polishing of rails

 

In the umbra of the canopy

I listen as a voyeur

to private conversations

spoken into phones

 

It's a distraction

 

From all the possibilities

that swirl around my head

 

From the aching in my bones

 

From the news that

Boatyard Nick is three months dead

and O now has cancer

 

From the image of my mother

and her drunken widow-sisters

leaning on each other

 

From the memory

of my long-departed brother

 

From failed responsibility

and the search for adventure

 

From you

 

I watch the rain

and eavesdrop

on a woman and her doctor

to stop my brain from racing 'round

trying to find an answer

 

Here comes the train

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Comments

Submitted by Bee on

So much here, in what you apparently decided not to think about, or say. Beautiful description - lovely poem.

Bee

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Thank you Bee. Still raining.

Parson Thru

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Seem to have lost the hard returns. Ah well. Worse things happen at sea.

Parson Thru

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

raining here too. I love this poem Parson

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Thank you insert.  I posited elsewhere (FB) that the world has flown into the arse of a great galactic being.  Not to worry.  Tesco had a Medoc Bordeaux reduced to something affordable.  Just getting it accustomed to English air, then I ain't going anywhere.

 

Thank you so much for the cherries.  Glad the scribble is being enjoyed.  Will I get my paragraphs back or have they left with the swallows?  

Very grateful really.  8-)

Parson Thru

Submitted by VeraClark on

Raining glum here, too. Your rain-heavy and heart-heavies expel such momentous emotion in your reader's head. This is gorgeous, Parson.

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Morning Vera. Been watching the odd leaf drop from the lime tree outside.  Actually had a bright day yesterday, but very end-of-season in our seaside town.  Rode to Portishead on the bike and had a delightful chat with a retired man as we sunned ourselves like two lizards.  Thank you for your lovely comment.  Glad it brings some enjoyment even to one person. 

Parson Thru

Submitted by iDrew on

 

Brought enjoyment to me too.  Been round Mum and Dad’s in Suffolk this weekend, still plenty of swifts yesterday ( I think the swallows are too lightweight to hang around), although today I think they’ve put on their wood pigeon overcoats and thermals.

 

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Submitted by Parson Thru on

Hi Drew. Thank you. They'll be needing those thermals tonight. If they get caught in this breeze they'll end up in the North Cape.

Parson Thru