2013 30 Day Image Prompt Contest Book

"Cloudburst" (Poetry/Day 13 Entry)

Cloudburst

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Like tender hands surrounding
this planet of our birth,
tiny points of brilliance
perform a dance of mirth.

As they soar the heavens
they join and coalesce
and fall upon the Earth
in a wet caress.

Sunlight flashes through them
releasing rainbow smiles
in every hue and color.
It shows their hidden wiles.

Small - and yet each drop
contains an awesome power:
strength to humble mountains;
nurture for the flower.

I watch and now I feel
my heart awakening
to a flood of feelings
that thoughts of rain can bring.

Rain can touch emotions
of gentleness and sorrow
or remind us all of nature
with her awesome power.

Rain can bring a cleansing
or obscure the questing searchers
or gently touch a new formed life
with a hand that nurtures.

I look at each new drop that falls
with new eyes and I find
new meaning in each aspect
like a cloudburst in my mind.


Day 13 – "30 Day Image Prompt Contest - CLOSED" 
Prompt: Open (so I put my own up LOL)