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A Rainy Day (revised)

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 falling
Brought down
Drained
Away
To be drank again
On another rainy day
Where the sky still remains
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Submitted on January 21, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOLMPQRSRT
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 357
Words 64
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 23
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