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A Collection: Weather

June 18, 2018
By beanvevo BRONZE, Eastampton, New Jersey
beanvevo BRONZE, Eastampton, New Jersey
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Rain
Have you smelled the rain before?

It’s really kind of strange,

The rain I twirl in just once more.

Though everything has changed


Have you smelled the rain before?

The smell of wet mint leaves

Worms pushed out from the dirt-piled floor

Dance with me and the trees


Have you smelled the rain before?
The smell of sad Mondays

Where though I’m tired and quite sore I’ll dance away my pains


The smell of rain flows by once more

The same scent I despise

I just can’t dance anymore

I’m tired of the lies


I’m tired of the same old ways

This time I’ll be more wise


Sunshine
Sunshine’s touch can be so nice

It’s gentle and polite

But beckon it a second long

And it will surely bite


The sun can smile in the sky

The sun can smile very high

And if you show your cards of joy

The sun feeds on your plight


And in the end i’ve theorized

That humans are just like the sky

There’s some quite calm just like the clouds

And suns who’d watch you cry


I’ve got one question for the sun

And that question is “why?”


Snow
The masses flee away from me

They bundle up, and such and so

I briefly ponder if they know

That I am also cold?


The snow is warm compared to them

I cannot feel their warm mittens

And in the end, I’m still quite sure

I’m left alone and frost-bitten


Sometimes the snow is not so mean

It’s not as mean as they who leave

And though it’s cold, deep down I know

The snow is always here with me


Jack Frost’s a friend, of this I’m sure

For now I’ll lean on his shoulder

Through thick and thin the masses swarm

But are they really truly warm?


Clouds
I welcome you into my home of clouds in which I stay

Forgetting each and everything you learn along the way

The fog’s elusive yet inclusive hiding memories

Though beautiful, the clouds will wipe feelings from yesterday


It’s fun to forget everything that ever made me sad

‘Cause in the end life’s all about just only feeling glad

I incubate myself in mist and you can surely join

Though if you forget who you are please don’t end up all mad


I thank the clouds for helping me remember who I am

Someone who cares not of the past and forgets future plans

Throw away the remnants of the ones who hurt you so

Disagree with me and it’s surely your time to go


Goodbye to the past of course and goodbye to the present

When all things matter, nothing matters, who would feel resent?

Come join us for the fun of oblivious lives of lies

But first discard the troubles you have seen with your two eyes


The author's comments:

I'm a 15 year old gay guy from New Jersey, and in school, we had a writing assignment to create a collection of poems. I related mine to weather, and the central theme of each piece was that perception is often inaccurate. Rain was a piece about how something may seem fun at first, but it becomes repetitive and sad. Sunshine was a piece about how something beautiful turns dangerous quickly, and snow was about how one might seem cold, yet they are endearing in times of trouble, and so on and so forth. In a way, this collection speaks about me as well, and I hope for a lot of others. I don't want my sexuality to define me, and if I were perceived as such, I'd feel negatively, so I wrote with this in mind for the collection.


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