hard dark sky
trees braced motionless
in sewer air
lightning flashes thunder rolls
winds roar in a summer storm
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I’ve realized lately that I rarely write about the rain. Then I read ‘Fifty shades of rain’ by Toni Spencer at Imaginary Garden with Real Toads and decided to notice the next rainfall more closely. The storm came tonight. Apparently there are more than 50 words in Japanese for different types of rain.
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Janice, this is timed perfectly for today! ‘Hard Dark Sky’ at the moment! You capture the inclement weather and its mood brilliantly.
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Thank you Annika 🙂 It was amazing to see the brilliant sun again an hour later.
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Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #4: Janice’s latest #tanka!
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Thank you for the reblog Frank 🙂
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Excellent scenes! 😎🥀😎🥀😎🥀😎🥀
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Thank you, Dorna 🙂
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I like the energy of your poem. We are having wild rain storms down here too at present. You’ve made me curious enough to go and read about those 50 types of rain.
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Thank you Suzanne. It fascinates me to learn that a language has many words or phrases where English has very few. The different types of rain reminds me of the different types of snow observed by some cultures.
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Or the number of seasons. The aboriginal tribes of central Australia have seven seasons.
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