Welcome to Poetry Friday!, this week hosted by the amazingly creative artist and teacher, Jone McCullough Here. Thank you Jone for hosting and Happy Halloween!
I am excited to be leaving tomorrow for the Poetry Palooza and Highlights and a little preoccupied with what I will take on my journey. Weather: fifties with the chance of rain. I hope to see and get to know better several of my Poetry Friday friends. My plan is to sit back and listen. I’ll enjoy the company and hope to revisit a collection of poems I haven’t thought of for a while.
It’s been a lovely rainy day, perfect for the eve of halloween.
RAIN ALL DAY
A day to wear your plastic raincoat
and listen to the thump of
heavy drops on your arms and head.
A day when it might be
nice instead,
if you could,
to curl up in a warm bed
and read.
But it is a school day,
a perfect morning to think
how the world might
be changed by the gray
pools and puddles,
as you watch them
cold and wet,
gathering, gathering
outside the lunchroom window.
© Janice Scully 2025
You can’t see the rain but you can see the inflated pumpkin in my neighbor’s yard, making up for my quieter Halloween celebration, mostly colored leaves this year.
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Thank you Jone for hosting!
I love the two sides of this, Janice. Perspective is everything!
Janice, your rain poem brings back memories of a rainy school day in Utica. As a 5-year-old I got locked out of my kindergarten room during a torrential rain. You can imagine how hard I cried while pounding on the door as I was drenched in water. Central NY was always filled with cloudy skies. I agree with Liz, your poem has two different POVs making it a very interesting read. Have fun at your Highlights retreat.
The cold, wet, drab doesn’t look so bad when peeked at through the lens of your leafy, green windowscape, Janice. Feels like a happy cold and wet!
You captured that rainy day feeling, Janice. Rain inspires so many different thoughts, depending on where we are.
Have an amazing time at Highlights!
I’m looking forward to a report about your time at Highlights! That used to be high on my want-to-do list, but somehow I’m more satisfied hearing about others’ trips now. I wonder how that happened?!?!
That chilly day of rain was all well and good…except for the fact that it stole all of the fun of trick-or-treating. We only had about 25 visitors, down from the usual 75-100! Wah!