each drop breathed, a prayer – v2

a painted word-picture,
each drop breathed, a prayer,
speaking to each one of us
through our eyes, our memory,
words of love, of beauty, grace,
an image grafted, melting into our story…
 
dust, droplets of rain, transparent beads,
liquid glass, dew, like melted sugar,
dabbed, brushed on each petal,
like Jack Frost’s confection,
another time, a season,
when blossoms do not exist…
 
living flesh sprayed by the droplets,
a repeating pattern, precision,
frozen for us in the image, the moment -
Drink it all in, heavy with memory,
present, captured forever,
after a brief morning rain shower…
 
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Edited March 11, 2024
Each drop breathed, a prayer – v2
 
edited July 4, 2018
each drop breathed, a prayer
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/07/each-drop-breathed-prayer.html
edited July 4, 2018
each drop a prayer – v3
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/07/each-drop-prayer-v3.html
edited July 4, 2018
each drop a prayer – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/07/each-drop-prayer-v2.html
July 3, 2018
each drop a prayer
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/07/each-drop-prayer.html
July 2, 2018
Pearls and Jewels of Water on the Bloom
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/07/pearls-and-jewels-of-water-on-bloom.html
July 2, 2018
post on the Realistic Poetry Twitter page,
https://twitter.com/RealisticPoetry
a picture of a orange lily covered in rain water
“How poetic can you be? Write a short poem about what you see!”
https://twitter.com/RealisticPoetry/status/1013841347558572033
edits to last stanza of prior poem
edited June 26, 2014
After the Shower – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/after-shower-v2.html
June 6, 2007 6:50
After the Shower
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2007/06/after-shower.html
Wesley United Methodist Church
www.concordwumc.org
Concord, NH
https://www.facebook.com/groups/CWUMC/
 
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