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A Rainy Day

Chris Pearson 1977 (Winnipeg)

Gentle

Emptiness

Blows in cool

Taste of peppermint

On the silent tongue

Inner voice hums

Slick grey road

Under wet grey sky

Dark clouds swell

Drown out the sun

Behind a growing bruise

Unseen thunder

Unheard lightning

Below life swims

Exhaling ghosts

Leaden eyes under

Everything is falling

Brought down

Drained

Away

To be drank again

On another rainy day
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Submitted on January 20, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XXXXXXXXXXXABXXABXXC XC
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 393
Words 60
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 20, 2
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