Elixir of Summer Rain

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The buzzing of cicadas in the night

As bats begin to circle through the air

The song of the spring peepers trills so light

When day's frenetic pace turns laissez-faire

Black crickets chirrup secrets we can't share

A barred owl calls "Who cooks for you?" unseen

An echo seems to answer from somewhere

On silent wings they fly off to convene

In pools of water plunk proud frogs of green

Shy deer emboldened rustle through the wet

Leaves in the summer rain glow with a sheen

And darkest nights shine as if polished jet

This magic fills each drop of summer rain

An anodyne to ease the winter's pain

submitted for Think Tank Thursday, #107 Sound, at Poets United
and Poetry Jam, Do You Believe in Magic?

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Pondering Art

Jackson Pollock #5

submitted for Poets United, Thursday Think Tank #104, Jackson Pollock

and Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, A Word With Laurie-Demarcation

and for you film buffs, I highly recommend:

banksyfilm.com

This is the inside story of Street Art - a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money and vandalism collide. Exit Through the Gift Shop follows an eccentric shop-keeper turned amateur film-maker as he attempts to capture many of the world's most infamous vandals on camera, only to have a British stencil artist named Banksy turn the camcorder back on its owner with wildly unexpected results.

One of the most provocative films about art ever made, Exit Through the Gift Shop is a fascinating study of low-level criminality, comradeship and incompetence.
By turns shocking, hilarious and absurd, this is an enthralling modern-day fairytale... with bolt cutters.