<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=523642" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Boy running in the rain...</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">His face swinging from ear to ear<br>A bemused smile lighting up<br> his gander gait<br> under the burlap mop</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who's looking at me<br>Why is everyone looking at my legs</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His mother telling him to be back this summer<br> before the green peacocks turn to Indian blue<br>Droplets big as his nightshade eyes bursting at each<br> swan step</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Boy on an errand</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The stealthy guilt-ridden leaves of the linden<br>Motionless in the metallic green boiling flood</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Boy still running in the rain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How old am I<br>As old as the linden when it was eight<br>Where are the caterwauling magpies this day<br>None to mock me in my gait</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He thinks he's running in the still hot rain<br>But the cars and trucks along the road shower<br>In their mindless manic main</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wait till you see my master drive me proud<br>Over the bridges under high-voltaging cables<br>My throat loosening up in coughs and curses<br>The mud drained from my tired gables</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Boy still keeps running in the rain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When will the summer end<br>When the cotton sky turns to lead</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Or when the boy stops running in the rain</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>(©: T. Wignesan July 13,2011 - Thursday, August 4,2011 - Poetry Page: A Long Story Short Website 'Poem of the Month', August 2011.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=T.+Wignesan">T. Wignesan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=523642" data-title="Boy running in the rain... de T. Wignesan" data-description="His face swinging from ear to ear A bemused smile lighting up his gander gait under the burlap mop Who's looking at me Why is everyone looking at my legs His mother telling him to be back this summer before the green peacocks turn to Indian b..."></div> </div> </div>

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