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A Collection: Weather
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

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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.