After The Rain

After the rain
Absolute brilliance
Everything brighter
Everything cleaner
Dark clouds left over
From the winter past
Finally giving way
To a laughing summer sun
And all the flowers
Shout for joy

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(POTD #562, originally written and posted on June 5, 2005)

Guest Poet - Lily Rohrbach, age 6

Falling Petals

A bursting star up high
Puffing clouds in the sky
Petals falling from the sky
And one gold center from a flower

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