RAIN

Everything has EYES when it begins to rain.

Eyes, there are eyes everywhere if you would care to see.

Eyes in the dew, in the grass blades that shine

in the petals and the leaves.

They are all your eyes,

looking at me wherever I go,

to the sea or sky or the river,

to the mountains, the plains and the fields of grass.

Their shadows spread like the shadows in the woods;

their nuances deepen like the voices in a dream.

It's love extraordinary;

it's an invitation to partake

of the synergy of the flow;

a hint to follow till the horizon's end' till the sky's space that never ends;

reminding: life begins always at the edge of everything that seems to have come to an end..

Sushama Karnik (c)

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Françoise Dhulesia

I like the anaphora of the eyes traveling through the poem like a leitmotiv.

I also like the paradoxical vision on which this poem ends, such a beautiful optimistic note, as if the rain had the power to change our perception of the world.

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Françoise Dhulesia Talking about anaphora here is a famous instance from A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief,;  it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." A remarkably sustained use over a considerable length of a sentence

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Françoise Dhulesia here is one more from the Old Testament which contains similes that sound rather odd in a description of the beauty of a bride: "Look at you! You are beautiful, my darling.

Look at you! You are so beautiful.

Your eyes behind your veil are doves

your hair is like a flock of goats

coming down from Mt. Gilead.

Your teeth are like a flock of sheep about to be sheared,

who are coming up from being washed." (The Song Of Songs from The Old Testament of The Bible.)

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Françoise Dhulesia

Sushama Karnik Indeed!

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Françoise Dhulesia

Sushama Karnik This description of the bride may show how natural, virginal her beauty is. Thank you for sharing such edifying examples of anaphors, Sushama.

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Prem Kumar Gutty

Very Very true

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