We Didn't Wake The Rain

Original Poetry put to Celtic Music - Memories of North Coast Rain We Didn't Wake The Rain We didn’t wake the rain But it came And stretched out comfortably dark Across the evening hills With a half sigh of warning It possum pattered on the rooftops Then puckered, popped and splashed in drains Before a green tree frog chorus A thousand chirrups strong Sounded in amphibious joy Rattling the windows And echoing in the downpipes While out on the verandah Shattered moonlight lit the lace Of ragged curtain from over-spilling eaves And silver fished the flow in fast running gutters Night plants sighed Mosquitoes hummed Clouds drummed And beneath soft sheets Deep in blanket warm We drifted off content In the middle of the storm We didn’t wake the rain But it came And stretched out comfortably dark Across the evening hills With a half sigh of warning It possum pattered on the rooftops Then puckered, popped and splashed in drains Before a green tree frog chorus A thousand chirrups strong Sounded in amphibious joy Rattling the windows And echoing in the downpipes While out on the verandah Shattered moonlight lit the lace Of ragged curtain from over-spilling eaves And silver fished the flow in fast running gutters Night plants sighed Mosquitoes hummed Clouds drummed And beneath soft sheets Deep in blanket warm We drifted off content In the middle of the storm And beneath soft sheets Deep in blanket warm We drifted off content In the middle of the storm