Tag: Seattle

Waking to Rainfall

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Waking to rainfall
Bringing forth feelings of “home”
My soul echoing
With memories of drops
Gently rattling
Roofs and windows
When I, wrapped
Securely in blankets;
This world’s savagery
Still a mystery 

A Rainy Seattle Friday: Haiku Challenge

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Rain is now falling

A #Seattle element 

All things grow from there
The “word of the day” was “element”

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Awoke to rains rage
Where I’d resist the outdoors
I’m safe on my couch


I’m a product of Seattle. So much time in the rain, it defines me. I remember a moment, so many years ago, sitting in my apartment, looking out over Seattle with coffee and a good book. With nowhere I needed to go, nor be, I sat in the window bay watching the rain splatter upon the glass, gravity writing it’s magic. 

The Great Blue Heron

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This gangly bird
Inelegant legs, bearing
Ghost upon the marsh

Seattle’s Rain Arrived

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Raindrops tap windows

Gusts rattling the dried leaves

Autumnal cold rain 

The predicted reasons have come. Trees bend in the breeze, leaves drift across my drive. Summer’s memory flutters within the dried, damp leaves.