A Long Slow Rain

A Long Slow Rain

By Larry Linville

A light shower began today

now it looks as if it will stay.

A few drops first began to fall

turning damp the old red brick wall.

First it came like ripples on a lake

and tiny pools it began to make.

Like incoming ocean tides it grew

with many drops and then just a few.

Sometimes like rolling waves it tore

then like small ones that were a boar.

Like a tempest with the wind blowing

and then soft drops almost like snowing.

It soaks the lawn and runs down the drive

the once dry grass is looking alive.

There is no ocean in the Midwest

but this thing of beauty helps me rest.

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