A brief note on a notable young talent before my poem "No Umbrella Needed"
Introducing a nature photograph by Sophie Palmer
As we all know photographs are a wonderful accompaniment to our writings.
Today I would like to introduce the work of a young photographer Sophie Palmer
who captured this particularly appropriate photograph last year when she was ten,
yes, that is correct, ten-years-old. To a young woman with a wonderful eye.
Thank you for sharing your vision
Welcome Sophie Palmer
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| "Raindrops on Grass" by Sophie Palmer daughter of Alexandra Palmer aka The Happy Amateur |
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| Rain Drops On Grass by michele walters |
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| Enhanced Rainbow -Barb Ver Sluis |
No Umbrella Needed
They didn't take an umbrella to play
They were five and six, boy and girl
Running knee deeper into the lapping lake
On a bright sunbathed day
They didn't take an umbrella
Did not inherit the excuses of their families
For why they should not play together
When lightning cut the sky and thunder clapped
They joined wet pruned fingers and ran through
Lapping water past the shore to
The oak tree in the grassy center, their haven
Under low reaching summer full oak leaves, they
Sat close, bumping bodies for warmth, half laying- leaning against
The sturdy thick trunk and then
Vowed with a pecked kiss to
Meet again
When they were grown
On this same day
Vowed to bring no umbrella despite the weather
And smiled in satisfied sighed silence
As rain spattered the lapping lake
And light-shifts lifted the clouds
As a falling shimmering sun fell quickly
And they rose and ran through the wet grass
Laughing
Home with hair slick soaked
They were five and six, boy and girl
No umbrella needed when the rain falls
Diamond droplets of pittered-patter-pleasure
Diamond droplets of pittered-patter-pleasure
