Riddles

          Riddles

          (6/12/1983)

 

Now just how bright do glowers glow?

Exactly what do showers show?

And how the hell do flowers flow?

 

Though people sometimes call them bright

They really do not give off light

Although they burn, they have no spark

You see them most when times are dark

And that’s because they make it so

And that’s how darkly glowers glow.

 

Rain starts raining; droplings drop

Forming, falling, splashing, stop

Starting high and ending low

That is what the showers show

 

Seed, then seedling; sproutling sprout

Rooting, branching, leafing out

Shifting, changing as they grow

That is how the flowers flow.

 

 

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