Rainy Summer's Eve

 I wrote this last night but couldn't post it because of internet issues...so we'll begin with a rainy-dusk morning poem:) We had a gorgeous sunny day, then after supper the rain began falling, not the hard, pelting sort but the soft kind that pitter-patters in patient chatter...

Earth tugs on dusk's brooding hemline

Heaven’s nightlight tapestry

Hides behind the lowered anthem

Of a rainy summer’s eve

See how soft its loft unleashes

Like a lilting minuet

Silver symphony of splashes

In each raindrop pirouette

Slipping, dripping, half-breath halos

Every little leaf a cup

Every lily is a chalice

That a song of rain fills up

Twilight is a velvet river

Liquid glass-notes skim and swirl

Where a world of satin-slippered

Laughing ballerinas twirl

© Janet Martin