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Are you ready? Come on along and read some homespun poetry as well as a jot and tittle regarding distinguished poets and their works. Gael offers a positive balance of her own nostalgia notes and poetic meanderings with those of others. [Editor's note: Gael no longer contributes to Silver Planet, but we have made her archived blog entries available as a service to our readers.]
Raindrop Musings
New life
How tears and rain alike
Can cleanse the stain that living brings
And leave all fresh and bright.
My words, as I watch the raindrops streaming down my window. Outside, glistening ribbons roll the downgrade through my yard. A few small pools gather to be immediately surrounded by birds pulling at fat worms and shaking their feathers in aggravation at being wet and celebration at finding food.
The rain dances off rocks and stumps and runs in rivulets down the mountain—gushing and rushing to an unknown destination. Following the path of least resistance, the stream carries white pebbles and twigs into the already full main ditch. From there it continues into a storm drain, which carries it to complete its journey. Bubbling through man’s concrete drains and open ditches, it eventually channels to freedom in the town’s lower reservoir. A small sea where it mingles with water waiting to be released in measured amounts to nourish animals, plants, humans.
This journey for Rocky Mountain raindrops is part of the overall completion that brings cleansing, refreshment, and new life to a parched land.
I hope you enjoy this Ruskin Bond poem.
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Raindrop
(Ruskin Bond, 1934–)
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NOTE: Ruskin Bond lives in the Himalayan Mountains of India and is well known for his poetry, fiction, and weekly English-language columns in leading Indian newspapers. He has written charmingly for children and produced many short stories and novels.
Bond’s first book, The Room on the Roof, is about a runaway Anglo-Indian boy named Rusty. It is filled with adventure and glimpses of nature—as are subsequent books about Rusty’s adventures.
By Gael Stuart
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