For All Things Wet

This claustrophobic, clinging heat

where air is humid, spiced with dust,

has found me in an avid lust.

My mind is fixed on fluid things

of rivers, brooks and gurgling streams,

of oceans, with white crested waves

that crash on shore before my feet.

I'm dreaming of torrential rain,

I'm dreaming of the sweet refrain

of raindrops as they splatter down.

I'd happily strip off and stand

with outstretched arms and upturned hands

as Heaven opens up the skies

and cries out loud for all that dies.

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

the heat, the humidity feels stifling..just like being suffocated ...i feel that way in small spaces...but also in wide open spaces when the heat is as oppressive as a slave owner...or a dictator under which we live in duress.
your poetry always makes me think on several levels.
j.

[Chris Shaw]

Pleased that my writes take you to other levels. I agree, small places can be stifling, I always have the urge to run away. Slave owners and dictators are nasty too. Thank you Jacob.

Chris

[Bell Spalding]

This is a feeling I didn't know should or even could be captured so beautifully until now. And with a consistent rhyme scheme, as well, that benefits the piece! Absolutely marvelous and very impressive.

[Chris Shaw]

Thank you so much for your visit and your very generous response. Your words are greatly appreciated.

Chris

[Moonie]

It's raining right now, and I am studying my surgery books in the library. Pretty pitter-patter on the windows as backdrop as i write this review. Yunno there are certain Native American tribes who believe in the power of rain-dances, and that just pretending to enjoy the rain, imagining the rain drops on your skin can attract the clouds. I am pretty sure a good poem like this would achieve the same effect. Lemme know if you were successful... ;)
I'd like to try a dry dance if the rain continues :'(

[Chris Shaw]

I might be trying that rain dance if we don't have any this week-end. Rumour has it, that we might just get some. I'll let you know: )) happy dry dancing, and thank you for your lovely response.

Chris

[Chris Shaw]

I am smiling, heavy rainfall last night while we all slept :))

[Moonie]

Ha! So it works afterall! ^_^

[Chris Shaw]

Good to have some rain, everything beginning to green up again.

[송지ፏ..]

Nice. When I was in Japan, one city prefecture was 105 farenheight. It was hit especially when we didn’t have electricity, we only had paper fans. And those portable battery electric fans

[Chris Shaw]

That is hot and no electricity either, what a recipe for discomfort. Thank you for your response.read moreThat is hot and no electricity either, what a recipe for discomfort. Thank you for your response.

Chris

[송지석 / Ji-Suk]

Yep! I didn’t sleep for a week straight! Lol

[Lyn Anderson]

It is a double edged sword for those of us who live in normally cold climes, at least, but some of this heat is literally unbearable, and here, at least, the rain has provided little relief yet

[Chris Shaw]

It is stifling and we just aren't used to functioning in these temperatures. It's not like being on holiday :))

[Chris Shaw]

Thank you Lynn.

[Relic]

We're going on a week straight of rain but the air is still humid and hot. Such is life. :)

Nice one, Chris.

[Chris Shaw]

Thank you Relic, hoping for a drop of rain over here :))

[Fabian G. Franklin]

I can understand the response to the heat. Lately, our rain has been accompanied by some serious lightning so I'm thinking I won't be going out to dance in that. :) I enjoyed the read.

[Chris Shaw]

Thanks Fabian. We've had no rain for weeks. Our green and pleasant land has now turned brown ;)) Looking forward to rain, but like you I'll be staying away from lightning strikes:)) All the best

Chris

[CLR9]

This poem is very wet. Wet, drippity drippity. I remember going to a water park. I cried because a fat man hogged the lazy river, and he fell asleep because he drank Budweiser like my mom. Dang. Grate reed.

[Chris Shaw]

Pleased I managed to soak you thoroughly while you read this :)) Thanks for sharing your memory as well. Not a very happy one, but a wet one which I guess is fitting, bearing in mind my subject matter.

Chris

[CLR9]

Oh, I know. this is about f****n.

[Chris Shaw]

Well poetry is subjective my friend. So if you saw that in it, be my guest :))

[CLR9]

I'm a good kid

[Chris Shaw]

No reason to think otherwise :))