…it soaked the upright apes…

I’m intrigued by the poetic adventure of ascribing human attributes to things in the natural world.

That afternoon, there was a potent storm.

I imagined that many of those big fat raindrops had pounded the old driveway many times over the years—

you know, rain comes down, and water evaporates up…

Maybe raindrops have favorite places…

It looks like rain

With ancient fury, the rain comes,

stoked again by antique thunders,

kindled again by strokes

that sear the sagging sky.

Old Zeus once stirred this brawl

of sound and spark

and wind and wet,

he little knew his power

to brew eternal cycles

of Sturm und Drang.

This is the same descent of rain

that soaked the upright apes,

and the pharaohs,

and the Thracian warriors,

and the Goths, the Viking raiders,

the samurai, the Chiricahua children,

the hardy gauchos,

the slaves in every time,

and the beans of every summer.

This rain has filled this air before,

these heavy drops

have always done such drenching,

they know their way to earth,

they know just what to do.

July 8, 2016

My poem “It looks like rain” was published in my second collection of 47 new free verse and haiku poems, Seeing far: Selected poems. You can buy it on Amazon (paperback and Kindle), or get it free in Kindle Unlimited, click here

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Book review: Forced Founders

by Woody Holton

The so-called “Founding Fathers”

weren’t the only ones

who helped to shape our independence…

click here

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In other words: Poems for your eyes and ears with 64 free verse and haiku poems,

and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)

and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”

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