It’s Raining Friends

I told Freeta it hasn’t stopped raining in Ireland since before Christmas so being a sadist she gave me this prompt: What To Do With Rain.

Days after it started raining I joined Substack, I think it saved what’s left of my sanity. Or more correctly the people I’ve met on Substack saved my sanity. So thanks from a rain soaked old hack.

It rained poetry

Every day

For days on end

Poem

After poem

After poem

The field filled

With words

Of pain

And past

And love

And hope

And laughs

Still it came

Bucket loads of

Verbs

Nouns

Big flowing sentences

Since Santa

It’s been clause

After clause

After clause

Storms of emotions

Poems for the living

Poems for the dead

Poems for heartbreak

Poems for my big mistake

Wind howling

The ditch

Overflowing with tears

Purpose pouring

Down the driveway

Adjectives

Adverbs and

Pronouns

Desperately fighting

For higher ground

Loftier tomes

Saved from depression

By Substack

And all its

Crazy

Beautiful

People

Needed

Hidden Resilience

To make it

Through this biblical

Downpour

For sure

But now

Freeta

Spend time

Writing poetry

Bad poetry

Sad poetry

Mad poetry

Just glad to be busy

I’d awoken

My Legend within

Words to swim

Never dishearten

Just read

John Martin

And howled with laughter

Then after

Knock back rolling rock

Floods covering the dock

Howling winds of Gaia

Reached

Greek mythical proportions

Fractals of distortions

Saved from torrents

Of disaster

Tried to Cipher

Meaning while I type for

My life drowning

In poetry

Of sadness

And gladness

In Between the

Aches I could

No longer igNoor

Mad as Ana

Banana

Whispering to

Drowning daisys

Neiling in pools

Of water with

Fish jumping for flies

Pouring over streams of words

Written by Sofie

Ahh it’s just rain

Se sera Ciara

But when will it stop

This downpour of ideas

By Aailyahs

Uma starting to think

It’ll never stop

My ear finely tuned

Like an antennas

For Georgena’s

And Vennas

Latest chapter

Brash weather

For sure

Time to sail off

In a Felucca

Captained by Asuka

To a life of Soleil

In sunny Spain

Where there is no …

Rain