The Rain
Daffodil and sunflower,
egg yolk, tiny finch,
brilliant blazing color,
sun in every inch.
And now comes door in likeness
exploding in our eyes
to pose a certain question
I must perforce surmise:
in such unsubtle burst
of manic sunny yella,
if it’s really raining love,
why reach for an umbrella?
With thanks to Resa for the photo,
with an English major’s happy dance
at being able to throw in a perforce,
submitted to Dan Antion’s
Thursday Doors Writing Challenge.
Oddments 
May 25, 2024 at 1:21 pm
Yella and umbrella–my kinda rhyme! 😆 That is such a great door with a great poem to match.
May 25, 2024 at 1:26 pm
Yay! So glad it’s your kind of rhyme! Thank you! One of the reasons I try to write in rhyme is that it so often makes me laugh.
May 25, 2024 at 1:56 pm
This made me smile, Maureen. Resa’s photo was so fun, I’m glad you were moved by it to create this.
May 25, 2024 at 3:07 pm
Good stuff this year, Dan! My muse is huffing and puffing. Thanks!
May 25, 2024 at 2:00 pm
Hi Maureen, this is a lot of fun.
May 25, 2024 at 3:07 pm
Thanks, Robbie. I confess to a chuckle or two.
May 25, 2024 at 2:38 pm
I love this! Why, indeed?
May 25, 2024 at 3:08 pm
We’ll just get soaked, yes?
May 25, 2024 at 2:39 pm
Love this photo and love your whimsical poem. I have to admit though, I had to look up ‘perforce’. 😳
The Thursday Doors Writing Challenge has been a pot of gold for you Maureen. You have done it proud indeed. Yella and umbrella I had no trouble with! 🤣
Thank you for so generously sharing your awesome creativity with us. Your posts are always a joy to receive because they are always a class act.
And now you may have the pleasure of approving my comment once again….perhaps forever.
Ginger🦋
May 25, 2024 at 3:12 pm
Yes, I think this approval thing will go on forever, but it’s no big deal — except in principle. I just click and suddenly WP thinks you’re just fine. As for this Writing Challenge, indeed it has kept my muse hopping, and I’m in a state of disbelief. But I can believe you had to look up perforce; it’s very rusty and dusty — an English major’s nerdy fun! Thanks so much, Ginger!
May 26, 2024 at 12:06 am
I love those last two lines! This is a wonderful door, and you’ve done it justice. (K)
May 26, 2024 at 10:25 am
Thanks, Kerfe! This is certainly a door with personality!
May 26, 2024 at 9:52 am
Now, that’s a good question. Why not just stand out there and soak it up. 🙂 It rained here during the night which is the perfect time for the tourists. A bonus is I don’t have to water anything this morning. With all that spare time, I may have to bake something. Sounds like a good excuse to me. 🙂
May 26, 2024 at 10:30 am
Yes, you might have to force yourself to bake something! We had good rain yesterday, and I too gave thanks that I didn’t have to water, but the weeds were flourishing so I had to attend to them. It looks as though some bad storms are headed this way today, along with “high risk” of tornadoes and such. If I’m blown to New Hampshire, I’ll be most interested in what you’re baking.
May 26, 2024 at 11:11 am
If you feel the wind pick up, text me, and I’ll reach out and grab on to you as you pass by. I’m thinking raspberry something or other. 🙂
May 26, 2024 at 11:52 am
Oooh, raspberry something-or-other! One of my favorites! Maybe the wind will just follow the fragrance and I’ll be deposited at your door. If you hear a big plop, check the front door.
May 26, 2024 at 10:16 pm
Maureen, this is absolutely delightful! I love that you used “yella”, particularly since as a kid, I thought that was the name of the color. LOL.
Hugs.
May 26, 2024 at 10:23 pm
Perfect!
June 1, 2024 at 9:16 pm
Alrighty!
Lotsa fun reading this one, Maureen!
OMG! So happy you picked another of my pics! Yaya!!
Have a fab rest of weekend!
June 1, 2024 at 9:18 pm
Thanks! You too!
June 1, 2024 at 9:35 pm
Yeehaw! ❦🌹
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June 10, 2024 at 8:52 pm
Yellow or yella is my favorite color and has been since I was a child. Lovely and fun poem! I’m not much for umbrellas; rain or love. 🙂
June 10, 2024 at 9:40 pm
I too love yellow, but every time I think it’s my favorite color I see some peachy-pink rose, and that’s my favorite color, or a cherry-red snapdragon, and then that’s my favorite color. But it remains that I love yellow. Thanks, Brenda!
June 10, 2024 at 9:47 pm
I know what you mean. 😄