A Short Story of Falling
It is the story of the falling rain
to turn into a leaf and fall again
it is the secret of a summer shower
to steal the light and hide it in a flower
and every flower a tiny tributary
that from the ground flows green and momentary
is one of water’s wishes and this tale
hangs in a seed-head smaller than my thumbnail
if only I a passerby could pass
as clear as water through a plume of grass
to find the sunlight hidden at the tip
turning to seed a kind of lifting rain drip
then I might know like water how to balance
the weight of hope against the light of patience
water which is so raw so earthy-strong
and lurks in cast-iron tanks and leaks along
drawn under gravity towards my tongue
to cool and fill the pipe-work of this song
which is the story of the falling rain
that rises to the light and falls again
A Short Story of Falling - Alice Oswald
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- a big thunder by csengeri from http://freesound.org (one part) +)
- forest_wind_summer by Don't know +)
- trickling water by FractalStudios from http://freesound.org +)
- LS Rain, Beneath Trees by https://freesound.org/people/acclivity/ +)
- Rain & storm far off by Milie +)
- Arabic Rythm by molleik from http://freesound.org +)
- distant thunder by www.youtube.com/audiolibrary +)
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