Theme: Art and Colours
S for Settling on the Plains
Flood
Heavy-set thick dark clouds drift pass
Sustaining showers that raced to the groundTransforming into sheets of cool glass
Settling on the plains into rivers of brown
With drinks flowing and lots of good bites
Among friends now far from sight
Waiting for signs that they are back
Desirous of the ability that I sadly lack
Aligned to the Poem below:
Flood ~ by T’ao Chien
The lingering clouds, rolling, rolling,
And the settled rain, dripping, dripping,
In the Eight Directions—the same dusk.
The level lands—one great river.
Wine I have, wine I have:
Idly I drink at the eastern window.
Longingly—I think of my friends,
But neither boat nor carriage comes.
A to Z April Challenge - S
Very nicely done!
ReplyDeleteI like these vivid images you've painted:
ReplyDelete"Transforming into sheets of cool glass
Settling on the plains into rivers of brown"
We are all missing friends and family right now. I felt this!
ReplyDeleteStrange times we're in Hank, We are all in the same boat I suppose.
ReplyDeleteExactly written and take care.
Yvonne.
Nice job. I was trying to use the word "glass" to describe the flooded fields, but I failed where you succeeded.
ReplyDeleteWell done, Hank, for the rhymes, and especially for the rain metaphor ‘sheets of cool glass / Settling on the plains into rivers of brown’.
ReplyDeletea very vivid first stanza - from rain to flooded ground and the second stanza the complete lack of refreshing reunions with friends - a really enjoyable interpretation of the original
ReplyDeleteThe first stanza touched me, the other day there was a sun shower and I went outside and stood in the cooling rain barefoot in the grass. Facing the sun, it felt Mystical.
ReplyDeleteOh I do miss the pre pandemic life and friends.
Stay safe Hank
You make it easy to imagine the situation in the original as being in our own times. With changing weather patterns, there's more and more of this.
ReplyDeleteOh yes I miss my family and it feels worse when the sky is laden with dark clouds !
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Gorgeously rendered, Hank especially love the rain metaphor "sheets of cool glass / Settling on the plains into rivers of brown."
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