It is said
“April showers bring May flowers.”
Such a hopeful perspective
On the grey, gloomy, cold, wet days
Of April.
Days and days of rain.
Or sometimes snow.
Is anything said
Of April snowstorms?
The flowers
That were fooled into blooming
In April,
Believing that it was Spring,
Bow their embattled heads
To the pounding rains.
Perhaps T.S. Eliot was closer
To the truth of April
When he said,
“April is the cruellest month.”
I sit at my window,
Wrapped in a blanket,
Wearing wool socks,
Feeling the cold
And the damp
And the darkness
Of this forbidding April.
The chill settles into
My very bones.
Will April ever end?
It is time
To leave the showers of April behind
And skip to the flowers of May.
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Laura DePace
Retired teacher, nature lover, aspiring writer driven by curiosity and “What if?” I want to share my view of the fascinating, complex world of nature. I also love creating strong characters and interesting worlds for them to live in.
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"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan6 days ago in Beat
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Yes, it is although where I live the weather has been glorious but this is usually the way as your poem describes. The skies are greying now. It looks like the rain will come.