3 Perfect Poems for a Rainy Day
Raindrops Keep Falling: Poetry Picks for a Dreary Day
3 Perfect Poems for a Rainy Day
Gotcha! There’s no such thing as “Perfect,” except for you. You’re perfect.
1. “Rain Fugue” by Jessie Redmon Fauset
Pattering, wistful showers of Spring
Set me to remembering
Far-off times and lovers too,
Gentle joys and heart-break rue,—
Memories I’d as lief forget,
Were not oblivion sadder yet.
Ah! you twist my mind with pain,
Wistful, whispering April rain!
2. “trick of the tongue” by Alex Jane Cope in The Rumpus
See there you go speaking
to the salamander
in my throat
againslick heat in the near rain.
3. “Snail-Picking” by Onyedikachi Chinedu
The weatherman reports rain
to a crew of snail-pickers through an old TV.
