“Weather Report”
by Lilian Moore
Pinging rain
stinging sleet tonight.
Frost at dawn
bright sun in the morning.
Ice-bearing trees,
a glass orchard,
blinking sunwinking.
A noonwind will pass,
harvesting the brittle crop
crashing clinking.
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Rain
by Sigbjorn Obstfelder
(Translated from the Norwegian by Sarah J. Hails)
“One is one, and two is two-
we sing in huddles,
we hop in puddles.
Plip, plop,
we drip on roof top,
trip, trop,
the rain will not stop.
Rain, rain, rain, rain,
bucketing rain,
chucketing rain,
rain, rain, rain, rain,
wonderfully raw,
wet to the core!
One is one, and two is two-
we sing in huddles,
we hop in puddles.
Plip, plop,
we drip on roof top,
trip, trop,
the rain will not stop.”
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Poems are included in the book: One Big Rain – Poems for a Rainy Day, compiled by Rita Gray (Charlesbridge Publishing 2010)