A deluge of fat rain drops
Larger than an army of flying frogs
Bounding over tumbling logs
Quickly flooded my driveway
With rivers of bubbling ponds
Wildly racing in busy relays
That blindly drowned my lazy Sunday
Ivor Steven (c) January 2022
A deluge of fat rain drops
Larger than an army of flying frogs
Bounding over tumbling logs
Quickly flooded my driveway
With rivers of bubbling ponds
Wildly racing in busy relays
That blindly drowned my lazy Sunday
Ivor Steven (c) January 2022
lyrical fun
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Yep .. itβs raining frogs πΈ
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It sounds rather refreshing, Ivor! βοΈ
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Haha .. Iβm not sure .. but I didnβt know what a group of group of βfrogsβ was called .. itβs an βarmy of frogsβ β¦ and thus during the afternoon storm, my poem was born around the the interesting line βLarger than an army of flying frogs β β¦ ππ
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An army of frogs…I never knew that!
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Thanks Lois .. and it made for some fun imagery πΈπΈππ
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This so perfectly encompasses the emotion that is a lazy sunday: having time to notice the small things. π
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Thank you Jaya ππππΈ
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A lovely fun poem Ivor!
My Dad loved collective nouns β if you get too many Toads, they are a knotβ¦..
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Haha Iβll remember that one Kim
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Same is the weather here. The description resonates. Love the last line.
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Thank you Kindly Kritika πππ
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My pleasure π
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Great Kaleo song! π
Great photos! π
Wonderful and great poem! Love your descriptions of the rain and it’s doings! Ha! Lazy Sundays give us the chance to observe, ponder, and birth-ed poems. π
(((HUGS))) π
πΈ βπΈ
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Yep .. it was one of those lazy hazy Sundays, with a summer storm in the afternoon Carolyn
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What a great fun song and vid! He had such a wonderful voice! π
YAY for summer rains! π
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Raining frogs! Makes a change from cats and dogs, oh, and men! π
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love your flying frog fun Ivor and singing this beautiful song.. well humming as I’m learning the lost in the rain tune. Gorgeous! ππππ
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blindly drowned my lazy Sunday – I love the combination of a lazy Sunday and a rainy day.
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Thanks Pragalbha …. I hope my captured a summer storm on a lazy Sunday afternoon ..
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It is a bit dry and dusty in SW FL Send a little of this lovely rain our way, Ivor! The poem has made me covetous!
Give Frankie a hug for me! β€
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Oh it was dry here Cheryl .. so it was a good refreshing drop of βflying frogsβ πΈπΈ
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I like your joy in the power of nature here. Raindrops like flying frogs – what a fun image.
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Yep .. I was sitting there under my verandah enjoying nature’s summer diplay of a refreshing rainstorm
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I think I would have been cheering from the sidelines to one and all frogs….GO! GO! GO!
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Yes .. they were a happy army of flying frogs πΈ
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Thank you for reblogging my army of flying frogs !!
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