I told you a couple of weeks ago that my choirs were leaning a new song for our part in World Peace Day tomorrow. Here is a recording sent to me today by our choir leader.
After a couple of sunny days a front is moving through and so we have had Autumn rain. Here is a poem by Mary Oliver to celebrate Rain
Last Night the Rain Spoke To Me – Mary OliverLast night
the rain
spoke to me
slowly, saying,what joy
to come falling
out of the brisk cloud,
to be happy againin a new way
on the earth!
That’s what it said
as it dropped,smelling of iron,
and vanished
like a dream of the ocean
into the branchesand the grass below.
Then it was over.
The sky cleared.
I was standingunder a tree.
The tree was a tree
with happy leaves,
and I was myself,and there were stars in the sky
that were also themselves
at the moment,
at which momentmy right hand
was holding my left hand
which was holding the tree
which was filled with starsand the soft rain—
imagine! imagine!
the wild and wondrous journeys
still to be ours.
Here is a view from indoors of our Tinner’s Hound in our rainy garden. He is still laughing!
Tinner’s Hound by David Kemp
