Rain

The Banana Tree

The banana tree
Blown by winds pours raindrops
Into the bucket
–Matsuo Basho

Spring rain
leaking through the roof
dripping from the wasps’ nest.

— Matsuo Basho (Translated by Robert Hass)

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens

— William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

The rain comes in sheets

Sweeping the streets,

Here, here, and here,

Umbrellas appear.

Red, blue, yellow, green,

They tilt and they lean,

Like mushrooms, like flowers,

That grow when it showers.

— Elizabeth Coatsworth

Winter downpour –
even the monkey
needs a raincoat.
— Matsuo Basho

When rain

whispers

it is snow.

— Julie O’Callaghan

Rain on the green grass

And rain on the tree,

Rain on the house top

But not upon me.

— Anonymous