Wishing for Rain
Free Verse Poem by Jackie Chou
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I wish to hear the blue jazz of rain watch its droplets form little circles on the wet sidewalk while you divert your watchful eyes Their music drowns out your voice motherly figure Your wrath then loses its power over me
Jackie Chou is a poet of Japanese short-form poetry and free verses from Southern California. Her two collections of poems, Finding My Heart in Love and Loss and The Sorceress, can be purchased on Amazon. Besides writing, she loves to watch Jeopardy and talent competitions on TV.
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A poem that uses elements of nature to make its point. I had a bit of difficulty drawing some meaning from the lines reaching the end of the poem, the last three or four. The poem seems to be saying more than some reader, me included, may deduce form it.