Let the rain kiss you
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops
Let the rain sing you a lullaby
The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk
The rain makes running pools in the gutter
The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night
And I love the rain.
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From guest jake hurley (contact)
this poem is my favorite poem of all time. I was born in April, and LOVE the rain. some people take it for granted, but not me. the rain gives me a sense of the earth cleaning itself. -
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What the author means with the rain
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Rain Rain Rain
I am sure Hughes had no hidden meaning. Rain is just rain and he is telling us how it can be enjoyed rather than endured.
Fred Astaire singing in the rain had nothing on Hughes' great attitude towards the stuff
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I luv this poem
From guest La'Queona Rhodes (contact)
I love this poem, it has good describing words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You did a good job on this poem and so as well as the other ones that u had made!!!!! -
april rain song
From guest samantha (contact)
your poem is a really nice poem. my teacher always reads it to the class. -
From guest julie thompson (contact)
I love Hugheses poetry its so true and i believe that it influeces the people who read it. His poetry touches the heart and i enjoy reading it -
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seems an easy and simple expression... capturing the imagery of a rainy day... in crisp words...
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awesome poem
Beautiful words poured out like the cool rain on a april day. I love the rain also!...ennovy
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I'm sure Langston wrote this as a beginning writer. It is still, as Nam said; "simple like the rain".
There is a story of his bursting into a board meeting at Karamu HOuse, interrupting the meeting. He wanted, then artistic director, Ruben Silvers to read; "The Negro Speaks of Rivers". he was fourteen years old then.
He must have been much younger with this one.
I like the fact that it's just thoughts of rain. The desriptions are so that we can all sense where he is in this drizzle.
Langston Hughes was affluent for a long time, from a very young age.
Renee
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wow this poem is so pretty. i love the rain myself, i think rain is a powerful image, and a powerful symbol, it can mean so many things to different people.
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This is what I most love about this site -- the young people and perhaps sometimes even an oldster like me talking to the dead poets as if they were still here, because, if you think about it, REALLY THINK ABOUT IT, they are. And the conversations we hold with them, whether we post them or not, keep them alive and I hope, though I may be dead, I will always be listening.
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I'm totally confused as to why some of these comments are 'to' Langston Hughes.. your poem.. etc... you guys realise this isn't just a random person that is posting, but a famous writer!?! (and he's dead!) unless you have some seriously strange beliefs, he's not going to be reading this! lol
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It has the beat of rain itself.
And I love rain too.
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Still pools on the sidewalk and running pools in the gutter; what a descriptive way to describe the rain. Langston Huges was an awesome poet and I enjoy his work immensely. Avril
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Langston Hughes' poetry is so real. I think that's what I love best about his works. It's not superfluous. It just says what it is.
Beautiful.
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omg! i've loved this poem since i was like nine years old! i am pretty much obsessed with Langston Hughes. . .basically he's the best author in the world and i love him to death! check out his other stuff, a dream deferred of course, when susanna jones wears red, the weary blues. . .o so many!he's a genius!
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i think i remember a poem 'how beautiful is the rain' by h.w.longfellow or someone, it was a jolly solid poem and fast flowng too. yours reminds me of that poem which we loved to recite in our school days.
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Wow! Great Job! This poem actually breaks through my wall of "hatred for Spring"; it made me smile -- thank you!
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I love the rain too, standing out in the rain is something I do and still enjoy - as Janet says above - 'when we were silly',
I feel that Langston Hughes also enjoyed the rain - I can almost imagine his paper getting wet as he rushed indoors to write this.
Superb!!
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There is something so soft and tender in the rain. And it does seem to bring many of us back to a time when we were but a child. I suppose that's because the last time we stood in the rain cheerfully was when we still were silly.....we tend to lose silly as the years pass.
What a wonderful piece. A tender portrayal of a cleansing rain.
~ ~ Sincerely, Janet ~ ~
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I like the way you desrcibed the rain, but it needsto be alittle longer. I feel as if it had no real beat. I liked it overall though.
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i lyke this poem a lotespecially coz i got2 rite a response 2 it 4 the skool 7th grade is kewl.......
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Remember when you played in the rain?
How you would raise your face to the sky.
Jimmy Hendricks said, "that he could kiss it".
As an adult this poem takes me to a place that I love.
Freedom and no worries.
The rain plays a lullaby and I know the words.
I remember the rain even when the sun is out,
living, loving, and laughing was the time.
I love the rain. -
I also love the rain when it is here
but also when it is gone
It remains with me
for so so long.
When I read this poem, it takes me to a familiar place even as an adult. As a child I loved to play in the rain, as an adult I love to play in the rain. The rain drops are different aprts of our lives that we deal with. It makes me think.
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i am doing a project on langston hughes and first i had no idea who he was and now i know and i love his stuff he iss the greatest and he knows what hes talking about.. It soothes the soul of the lonely...
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this poem has an elegance about it that I cannot find anywhere else. this is probably one of Langston Hughes best works. it really soothes my soul.
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I have to agree with Pierre Richards, this poem does seem a bit child like. He must have written it at a very young age or maybe he wrote it while sitting indoors and watching the rain fall down. I think this is a prelude to more amazing works to come. Avril
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THis has a childish display to it, much like it might have been one he wrote as a kid. I don't know but it has that feel to it.
But the word usage, if it was written while he was young, would be as such that it would have been a good move to take the child in to work with his skills.
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i think that he likes the rain and that the rain is more than just rain. it gives you a warm feeling lik your loved or something
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This made me smile a little in the inside. This reminded me of my childhood. Bittersweet joys that I left behind in an abandoned nursey.
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when I read this poem i feel like i am three feet tall, wearing big yellow rubber boots, swinging my arms and smiling while i walk in the rain.
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It ALMOST SINGS THE SOUL , FEELS THE WATER ALL OVER THE BODY AS IDF PULSATING FINGERS CARESSED THE INNER SOUL
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Just how I feel about the rain, silver liquid drops...mb
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I love his simple writting! Its so refreshing and clear, and I enjoy that because sometimes I find metaphors and allusions a bit hard to interpret. I really enjoy this poets style.
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love it, love it, love it.
This piece, as does everything that I have read of Langston Hughes' poetry really stikes me. He is my favorite poet, and has been for a while. I love the rain, and as I read this, a sort of childhood glee flows over me. I can't even put into words what I think and feel, except that it takes me, somehow, back to a time and place where life was fun and perfect, and that I didn't have the worries and heartaches that I know today. Langston may have been a youth when he wrote this piece, but I feel like sometimes the wisdom of a child (or in this case a teenager) is better or even more perfect than that of adults, or "wise men". -
I think this may be the first Langston Hughes piece I've read. Probably not, I own a lot of Anthologies and I am sure he is in a few of them, but, I like this. It is simple, just like the rain.
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short to the point, carried the message through ,"Got soaked through in the rain", I agree with you rain has personality "Let the rain sing you a lullaby" it must be great lullaby,drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds,
take care , great job on the poem
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i think he was sitting in a room as a teenage and just watching the rain pouring down the windows.
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Langston must have been young when he wrote the poem. But it really wants you to have to take a much needed walk in the rain.
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