My mind has thunderstorms,
That brood for heavy hours:
Until they rain me words,
My thoughts are drooping flowers
And sulking, silent birds.
Yet come, dark thunderstorms,
And brood your heavy hours;
For when you rain me words,
My thoughts are dancing flowers
And joyful singing birds.
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Davies is using the phrase thunderstorm to describe the heavy oppresive period before a rainstorm that contains occasional grumbles of thunder but rarely lightening or rain. It is not meant to refer to excessive rain, thunder and lightening which are what we mean nowadays by the word thunderstorm.
Such heavy, oppresive periods often pressage short sharp refreshing rain which clears the air and seems to leave it with that clear spring like quality when you can more clearly smell the flowers and hear the birds sing.
Jim S
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†his is really a wondeful metaphor and I really enjoyed it. The idea of being rained words is unique.. and being a drooping flower until the rain comes..I just wonder why it has to be a thunder storm which is so.. violent. Maybe it's a man thing..LOL gentle rain seem too feminine?
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cool
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