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Black Poetry Post #15 - April Rain Song

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“The Ecology” – Theme for Week #3, April 15 thru April 21

DevotionReader Series: 30 Ways of Looking at Black Poetry

April Rain Song – Langston Hughes 

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.

Langston Hughes,  The Dream Keeper - and Other Poems, Knopf, 1932, 1963

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