Rain Music

Awakened

I am

In beshadowed awareness

Of a storm's arrival

By a clap of far-off thunder

Little after midnight

The rains come in sheets

And water falls from the eves

Pouring into growing puddles

Splashing & dashing

All around the walls

The dog is restless

In the tedious wee minutes

Frightened by the lightening

And the deafening patter

Of rain pouring from dark skies

Pacing back and forth about the place

Her tormented little bones

Shaking and nervously quaking

The lightening and thunder

Echoing again across the room

The sonorous, shuddering sounds

Of rainy rhythms

Rising to a crescendo

And then falling faintly

In the whirling winds

The soft twinkling of chimes

Ringing in their rainy wetness

And tolling of distant rolling thunder

Half asleep my head leans back

Upon the pillows

Nested as I am like a cocoon

In the warm comfort of my wool cover

Slipping in and back out of sleep

Conscious only 

Of an unending inundation

Engulfing me

The rains unceasingly

Call to me

Incessantly

In crescendo rising

Then slowly ebbing 

Off to brief silence

Heaven's symphony

 In rare midnight performance

My mind drifts in and out of dreams

Awakening restlessly

To the sounds of nature

Surrounding me all around

Engulfing my soul

In sleepless reverie

Ensconced by Nature's symphony

My solitary soul transported

To primordial periods and places

Connecting in strange chorus

With Heaven's spirits

Crying mournfully of things 

Once most beloved

Ever since lost and forgotten

Ancient, primitive times

Things only remembered

By rainy midnight dreams

During stormy nocturnal symphonies

Seasons

Odd Ends: Perennial Poesy along the Way

2005