Poetry Journal #3

Warm Rain by Midori Iwasaki (p. 233 - Imprints)

Warm
rain
runs
off fresh green boughs
and
wets
my
cheek

as I sail out
into
a
new
morning

I chose the peom "Warm Rain" by Midori Iwasaki because of its different design and the feeling that it gives me reading the it. The design is as a symbol for the floating rain. I like rainy weather because it gives me the feeling like it cleans all the "dirt" of the world. After the rain is gone, a new fresh smells is in the air. If you go outside or just open the window you breath in deeply and it feels so good and pure. It is as if a new morning starts and I can just start all over again. I especially like days on which the sun comes out right after and a rainbow is in the light and dark sky. It lets you forget all your problems.

Midori Iwasaki says the same in his poem."As I sail out into a new morning" is a metaphor for this "new" feeling. It means that the rain washes everything away and makes it new. It leaves a fresh smell in the air, like in a new morning. The speaker also has another technique to make his thought clear. He uses the design of the peom as a symbol for the flow of the rain.

I could not decide for one picture so I put them all in here.
The first picture is similar to the peoms last sentence. The new morning is symbolist by the sunrise in the picture.
http://blog.thildkroete.de/uploads/regen.jpg
This next picture just shows one of my favorite rainy days.
http://www.wissenschaft-online.de/sixcms/media.php/395/190402_sommerregen.jpg
And this last picture shows a usual rainy day. :)
http://img-x.fotocommunity.com/80/4386980.jpg