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Some Other Names for Rain
By Kate Wakeling
from Cloud Soup
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PoemKEY STAGE
Key Stage 2I call you the eyelash rinser
and windowpane racer.
I call you cloud soup.
I call you the tongue tickler,
sock seeper,
hair hassler
and ankle surpriser
(when paired with a passing car).
I call you sky spittle.
I call you leaf polisher.
I call you the pavement drummer
and umbrella summoner.
I call you a brigade of micro water bombs
having a skirmish with the lawn.
I call you the puddle artist
who will only draw circles.
I call you a sprinkle of ocean,
far from home.
© Kate Wakeling, from Cloud Soup, The Emma Press, 2021
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