This month instead of recommending books for adults, we’re recommending poems about rain. April is traditionally a rainy spring month associated with renewal and rebirth.
The trees sprout new leaves; flowers spring up from the ground fresh and green with blooms of beautiful colors.
Rain unlocks our creativity and touches all our senses. We see it, smell it, touch it, hear it, and taste it. You can read about it; paint pictures of it; write songs, stories, or poems about it, and you can even dance in the rain. We hope one of these poems inspires your creativity. Enjoy!
“The Rainy Day by William Wadsworth Longfellow
“The Rain” by William Henry Davies
“April Rain” by Langston Hughes
“In Time of Silver Rain” by Langston Hughes
“Summer Shower” by Emily Dickinson
“Spring Rain by Sara Teasdale
“Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost
“During Wind and Rain” by Thomas Hardy
“Rain” by Edward Thomas (WW1)
“Like the Touch of Rain” by Edward Thomas
“All Day it has Rained” by Alun Lewis (WW2)
“Rain” by Robert Louis Stevenson
“Still Falls the Rain” by Edith Sitwell (WW2)
“Rain Washing the World Green” by Susan Williams
“Song for the Rainy Season” by Elizabeth Bishop (great 20th century poet)
“Rain” by Don Paterson (2008)
“Rain” by Jack Gilbert
“After the Rain” by Valerie Dohren
“A Night-Rain in Summer” by James Henry Leigh Hunt
“And I Think it’s Gonna Rain” by Romelia Kitchens
“She’s Like Rain’ by Reynaldo Casison
“Satellite of Love’ by Theodore Mosley