191: April Rain Song

[exceptindreams]

“April Rain Song”
Langston Hughes

Let the rain kiss you.
Let the rain beat upon your head
            with silver liquid drops.
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk.
The rain makes running pools in the gutter.
The rain plays a little sleep-song
            on our roof at night-

And I love the rain.

Comments

[silver_wolf13]

Oh, cool poem.

So, yeah...I don't really know what type of poem I'm looking for. My story is like a weird Beauty and the Beast type thing. So...anything that has that type of feel. Yeah, I know. I'm not really helping much. Um...I wanted something foreboding, maybe? Darkness/night kind of thing. But not depressing. I'm not much of a poetry person...

[the_real_etoile]

Is this at all the type of character relationship?

“Incident”
Norman MacCaig

I look across the table and think
(fiery with love)
Ask me, go on, ask me
to do something impossible,
something freakishly useless,
something unimaginable and inimitable

Like making a finger break into blossom
or walking for half an hour in twenty minutes
or remembering tomorrow.

I will you to ask it.
But all you say is
Will you give me a cigarette?
And I smile and,
returning to the marvelous world
of possibility
I give you one
with a hand that trembles
with a human trembling.

[tulips_and_lace]

I saw this post and noticed the icon and the poem and thought to myself, "Did I post this here? I don't remember doing that." :) Not that I mind though I totally stole it from someone else forever ago :x

[exceptindreams]

Oh, sorry. I should have asked before I went ahead and took it. I credited you though.

[tulips_and_lace]

No no no, don't worry :) I'm not one of those people.