Thoughts In The Rain

    On a dull day
    With rods of rain descending
    A blackbird, bedraggled and dumb,
    Landed momentarily on a bough
    And shook the pendulous watery beads
    Into a sudden sparkling necklace..

    A snapshot in time
    To remember with delight
    On days of boring blue skies
    And unremitting sunshine.

    Richard Stewart