(welcome rain)
A car, lumbering down the gravel road, throws waves of dust into the air. Borne on a hot, lazy breeze the disturbed soil tumbles like a tired swarm of locust until it loses momentum and settles back over the surface of terra firma. Everything is still. Everything waits. Nature holds her breath. Then there’s a sudden, muffled sound of a fist striking a plump feather pillow as a tiny explosion sends a miniature brown plume of dirt rising. Then there’s another and another. Heavy liquid drops of heaven are falling on the land, slowly at first and then faster and faster. Raindrops pin the dust to the ground and fill the air with the scent of newness.
Soft earth reaches out
to embrace angels’ tears and
draw them to her breast.
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Over at dVerse Toni hosted Haibun Monday. The prompt was “rain” and Toni shared some of the many different and beautiful words for “rain” in Japanese. Check it out! This is my small offering (late as usual).
Jun 21, 2016 @ 23:22:09
Oh, I do love this haiku, that follows the prose. (When I clicked on your link, it took me to the poem for toads. Not sure if it’s my site or if you’ve put up the wrong link.)
Jun 22, 2016 @ 05:23:18
Klutzy me! I linked incorrectly. 😊 Thanks for finding and liking it.
Jun 21, 2016 @ 23:22:41
Ah, found the correct one.
Jun 22, 2016 @ 00:21:50
Love the last couple lines!
Jun 22, 2016 @ 05:23:30
😊
Jun 22, 2016 @ 00:25:31
OH! I can just see that first raindrop, and explosion of dirt. Wonderful descriptions here.
Jun 22, 2016 @ 05:24:43
Thank you.
Jun 22, 2016 @ 02:56:45
I love the haiku at the end.
Jun 22, 2016 @ 05:24:59
Thanks. 😊
Jun 22, 2016 @ 15:54:26
Oh lovely, so beautifully observed and described.
Jun 22, 2016 @ 20:08:26
Thank you for your kind words!
Jun 22, 2016 @ 16:23:55
This was an amazing experience!
Jun 22, 2016 @ 20:08:43
Thank you. 😊
Jun 22, 2016 @ 23:09:30
You’re welcome!
Jun 22, 2016 @ 16:41:50
I love how the rain pins the dust to the ground. Wonderful haiku. Perfections.
Jun 22, 2016 @ 20:09:41
Thank you so much! (We are in the clutches of the worst drought ever and long for rain!)
Jun 22, 2016 @ 21:58:09
You have really written how welcome the rain can be… just wonderful with that embrace of the tears…
Jun 22, 2016 @ 23:52:24
Thank you.
Jun 23, 2016 @ 00:31:28
i can only imagine
how much one appreciates
rain in the desert.. but in hot
Summer Florida days..
it steams
the heat
morever..
ah.. but creeks
with teaming fish..
Cool Rivers and
Sea Breeze but
i’m not sure
‘eva what
could be
a draw
oF Desert
sand or even
snow.. wHere culture
becomes a life or death
tool.. of subsistence at
even basic human
need.. aLways…
Hunting Fishing
Free as NaTuRe..
Beverly Hill Billies Live..;)
Jun 25, 2016 @ 13:41:53
Vividly recreated.
Jun 25, 2016 @ 14:03:49
Thanks! 😊
Jul 18, 2016 @ 04:39:38
LOVE! As always, I have pictures in my mind, painted by your words.
Jul 18, 2016 @ 05:20:15
Thanks, Casey. ❤️