March 21st is World Poetry Day!

Since it's been raining a lot here, and we're expecting more over the next few days, I'm sharing one of my favorite poems about rain.

Spring Storm 

The sky has given over

its bitterness.

Out of the dark change all day

long rain falls

and falls as if it would never end.

Still the snow keeps its hold on the ground.

But water, water from

a thousand runnels!

It collects swiftly,

dappled with black

cuts a way for itself

through green ice in the gutters.

Drop after drop it falls

from the withered grass-stems

of the overhanging embankment.

by William Carlos Williams