Tag: gentle rain

by Lucy M. Edmunds

Soft rain is so queer and wonderful
It washes the sky all clean;
The big warm drops come tumbling down
And make the brown lawns look green.

The street is a shiny black ribbon
That somebody dropped and forgot;
The trees are like leaky umbrellas
That the rain has torn and cut.

It makes such beautiful puddles
It's too bad I can't go out;
I'd like to put my boots on
And run and splash about

And play with the soft warm raindrops,
And hear what they have to say
Perhaps they would tell me about their homes
And why they came away.