GIFTS

Words are Gifts

Like Rain

A waterfall

Journeys to the ground

Sheets of rain

Descending

Fresh downward trail

This covering so cool and mellow

A collection, strings of beads

Drooping

Until it shields and cools you down

A natural partition

it is.

Photograph: Taken at my sister’s garden, today.

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Juliette Awua-Kyerematen

6 responses to “Like Rain”

  1. Tim Gels Avatar
    Tim Gels

    Juliette, just reading this poem is helping with the Alabama heat! Your “strings of beads” image is particularly powerful — thank you for sharing it!

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  2. Donnetta Norris Avatar
    Donnetta Norris

    Love this poem Juliette. Thank you!

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  3. Heather Morris Avatar
    Heather Morris

    What a beautiful picture created by your words to match the visual you shared. “Journeys to the ground” is a perfect way to describe it.

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  4. Lainie Levin Avatar
    Lainie Levin

    What I love about this poem is the way your line breaks give us that waterfall of rain. You’ve also chosen your words (especially those verbs!) so deliberately as to create just the right images for your readers. And I can picture the shelter from the rain as well, and what it provides. Just…beautiful.

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  5. Karen Avatar
    Karen

    What a wonderfully evocative poem, Juliette! I love it!

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  6. Ms Victor Reads Avatar
    Ms Victor Reads

    Ooh, how beautiful! It has been raining here the last few days and I love it so- I will have to try a rainy day poem. The strings of beads really is a strong image.

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I am am Elementary school teacher at an International IB School in Accra, Ghana, West Africa. I write with groups of writers, such as Teach Write.

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