No Better Offers

A Poem by Pete

Invariably our best nights were those when it rained. - Thoreau

real rain drops sliding on window glass | Stock Video | Pond5

rain washes down my window pane

deepening the river's coffers

each willingly accepts as it has

no better offers

© 2022 Pete

Author's Note

“We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain.” - Thoreau

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Added on December 7, 2022
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Author

Pete

Boston, MA

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I love reading, writing, music, nature, God and feeling emotion, not necessarily in that order. To me, these things go hand in hand. My favorite writer is Henry David Thoreau. I think he was a geni.. more..