Here's to finding the April rain showers and finding a reason to write. Five ways to view the April showers. That's what I've got for today's verse.
5 Ways to View these April Showers
~brcrandall
i.
When it’s always Monday (gripe)
wear rubber green boots
purchased from K-Mart
& splash in puddles
like a 3-year old
(next up, sixty)
hoping to find
frogs.
(Sarah Donovan,
thank you)
ii.
Cultivating genius also
requires ghold-en sunshine.
Find a tribe,
& let the dance
begin as if you are
a 19-years old
on Wigmore Place.
It’s 1992 & you know
life socks, sometimes,
so head outdoors
barefoot, dancing
to Blues Traveler,
in the rain.
iii.
Note to self,
from the way I see it,
I am handing down a candle
into the abyss,
the academy of darkness,
burning it at both ends
so there
will be light for the dampness.
the seeds will hatch.
you will grow.
the sunlight of summer
will be your reminder
May is on its way..
iv.
the recipe
for April,
is clickbait,
to smell barbecue
& anticipate freshness
from garden leaves
& tomatoes .
(Um, seriously, Pillsbury!
Make my life grand!)
Don’t be a dough-boy.
v.
walking with Ger
you remember
how to find the right words…
for the destination
not the journey.
Birds of a feather
learn to wait a minute,
22 year and counting.
There will always be confessions
(upon contact) -
a way to find the boy without a balloon
and remind him of
RIP-pride, summer ’16,
Vance Joy,
the closest thing to Michelle Pfeiffer
that we’ve ever seen,
& the importance
of singing in the rain.