Rainy Days and Rainbows

[PHOTO SOURCE: National Geographic online images, GRAND CANYON RAINBOW]

{A VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU to a VERY SPECIAL FRIEND for the VERY SPECIAL GIFT OF A BOOK OF POETRY BY EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON.  dht-2011}

(INSPIRATION from the rain that fell this morning over my roof, and set the leaves to sparkle in the sunshine -- that has come out and the sky that is chuck full of glorious RAINBOWS!  ~dht-MAY 2011)

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A Drop fell on the Apple Tree --

Another -- on the Roof --

A Half a Dozen kissed the Eaves --

And made the Gables laugh –

A few went out to help the Brook

That went to help the Sea --

Myself Conjectured were they Pearls --

What Necklaces could be—

The Dust replaced, in Hoisted Roads --

The Birds jocoser sung --

The Sunshine threw his Hat away –

The Bushes --  spangles flung –

The Breezes brought dejected Lutes --

And bathed them in the Glee -

The Orient showed a single Flag,

And signed the Fete away --

[~ A Poem #794  By: Emily Elizabeth Dickinson]

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WHAT this poem by my Maternal Cousin Emily Elizabeth Dickenson says to me -- OR why didn't you just say so (Emily's poem #794):

It seems this is about a summer rain shower and how it refreshes and changes the land as the water cycles (a chain of nature as a chain of pearls in a necklace) through nature as rain, streams, rivers, seas, oceans, then evaporation and storms and rain again.  How the land is blessed, kissed by the rain, decorated by glittering raindrops, and dust is settled.  How the rain makes soft and cheery sounds on the roof and birds sing their song.  How the sunshine 'gave it up' and the clouds and rain prevailed in rain shower festivities (fete), until the sun came out again from the East and displayed a rainbow (flag).  How the rain and wind washes the leaves (pear shaped leaves like a lute.)  [~ dht-2011]