my feet are light
as bees feed on daisies
and white anemones
along dirt road
humming a song
peppered with hoots
i scare off robins
splat!
here comes
the mercurial rains-
shifting canvas to
downy greyness,
i take
my colorful shoes
running
zigzagging home
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I liked the description of scaring the robins with hoots in that song.
ReplyDeleteI love this:
ReplyDelete"as bees feed on daisies
and white anemones"
So replete with wonderful sensory details--loved especially:
ReplyDeletethe mercurial rains-
shifting canvas to
downy greyness,
Give the robins a scare and run home without a care!
ReplyDeleteThe photograph is gorgeous, Grace. I love simple flowers like daisies and white anemones. But the lines that made me sit up were:
ReplyDelete'humming a song
peppered with hoots
i scare off robins'
and
'my colorful shoes
running
zigzagging home'.
I cannot say that weather is that unpredictable here, but I do remember running home from rain...
ReplyDeleteAw! Lovely! Running home through the daisies in the rain—kick off your red shoes!
ReplyDeleteI love how those first two lines can be read two different ways - wonderfully done!
ReplyDeleteThe more i read the more i love it!❤️ Beautifully rendered!
ReplyDeleteWhen you said, "splat", i was expecting something else on the beach that goes splat, under a seagull. It was refreshing when the rain started. That's a great color palette, with tones of grey
ReplyDeleteI love that final stanza. Gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteLOVE LOVE LOVE this:
ReplyDeletehere comes
the mercurial rains-
shifting canvas to
downy greyness,
i take
my colorful shoes
running
zigzagging home
Reminds me of carefree days :)
As a kid, I only ran from thunder storms; afraid of lightning. I've worn glasses habitually, so ball caps had to shield my lenses.
ReplyDeleteI love, 'peppered with hoots'. Fun poem, Lillian!
ReplyDeleteThere is such an innocence and delight in this - and it's filled with enough sensory details to bring us along on the walk :) really enjoyable, and love the carefree feeling that suddenly is broken by the tension of the rain - wild weather in Canada lately indeed.
ReplyDeleteI love the "mercurial rains!"
ReplyDeleteA lovely moment,come alive
ReplyDeleteYour words are as refreshing as the lovely spring day and shower you describe. :)
ReplyDeleteIt has rained so much this spring. I hope summer will bring more sunnier days.
ReplyDeleterunning zigzag... like that..it's the need to get home, but not give up the joy of the summer rain!
ReplyDeleteAh, yes, the mercurial rains of summer...experienced brief downpour at picnic birthday party this weekend, at least we had a shelter!
ReplyDeleteI like the feeling of lightness before and in the rain.
ReplyDeleteNice piece - great line about rain shifting canvas
ReplyDeleteI love these last lines,
ReplyDeletei take
my colorful shoes
running
zigzagging home
I love the concept of time almost standing still and your taking notice of the little things...and then running home.
ReplyDeleteI love those summer rains...especially when they are light and cooling on a hot day
ReplyDeleteI love your collection of images here.
ReplyDeleteI simply LOVE this:
ReplyDelete"humming a song
peppered with hoots"
Lovely image of shoes. And it sounds like the weather here is similar to yours there.
ReplyDeleteYou take us along on this hooting good write, and who doesn't love an extemporaneous shower!
ReplyDelete"peppered with hoots" -- nice!!
ReplyDeleteWe've had mercurial rains here, too. I love the peppered with hoots songs that scare away the robins. :)
ReplyDeleteReminds one of the lightness of movements when growing up, rain or shine!
ReplyDeleteHank
this reminds me of the flowery country roads of my childhood. so calm and colorful.
ReplyDeleteThis is a perfect quadrille - beautifully penned. I am there!
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