the clean caressing rain

Here's one for the  #notblippedbefore  series, as taken from the 1962 collection of Ruth Simpson's poems ...

... thought it appropriate for today's Edinburgh weather:


SUMMER SHOWER

Soft, sweet insistant rain - dropping from leaf to leaf
With light unceasing sound,
Like tears that heal a hidden grief,
And with their coming bring relief
To the dry and thirsty ground.
The flowers look up and drink their fill
Of the clean caressing rain,
They had wilted so in the heat until
Its freshness their colours did regain,
And their scents on the shimmering air will
Release, when the sun shines again.

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Ruth Simpson

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