Wednesday, July 04, 2018

each drop breathed, a prayer


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,
an image grafted into our story

droplets of rain, transparent beads,
liquid glass, like melted sugar
brushed on each petal
like Jack Frost’s confection
in 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 -
drink it all in, heavy with memory,
present, captured forever,
after a brief morning shower

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edited July 4, 2018
each drop breathed, a prayer

edited July 4, 2018
each drop a prayer – v3
edited July 4, 2018
each drop a prayer – v2
July 3, 2018
each drop a prayer
July 2, 2018
Pearls and Jewels of Water on the Bloom
July 2, 2018
post on the Realistic Poetry Twitter page,
a picture of a orange lily covered in rain water
“How poetic can you be? Write a short poem about what you see!”
edits to last stanza of prior poem
edited June 26, 2014
After the Shower – v2
June 6, 2007 6:50
After the Shower
Wesley United Methodist Church
Concord, NH

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