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© by Patrick Cardy (1953 - 2005)

aspects of rain
Language: English 
                       sh!
                     listen!
           silvery splatter shimmering patter
               splashing and cascading
                     shower

                 murmuring gurgling 
                  babbling gaggling
               spurting and spattering
               spitting and splattering
        squirtingly scuttering swampily sputtering
       tinglingly twinkling distillingly sprinkling
                 mizzling drizzling
                     stream

                 dribbling dropping
                piddling and plopping
       sloppily slobbering and sloshingly showering
                 churningly effluent
                      ooze

                slippering flippering
                slushy and succulent
                 trickling gargling
                  juicy liquescent
                rippling and roaring
                spouting and pouring
                  aqueous reeking
                 aquaticly steeping
                       and
flashingly plashingly slashingly thrashingly crashingly smashingly
                      damp

        flooding and flowing and floating and fluid
         sodden and seething and soppy and sous'd 
         wringing and watery and muggy and moist
       drenching and dripping and dabbled and dous'd
                pluvially percolated
                 soakingly saturated
                wringingly inundated
                  muddily macerated
          boggy and spongy and quaggy and rank 
         and marshy and dewy and squashy and dank
                       and
                  gushily slushily
                       and
                 gurgingly surgingly
                rushingly flushingly 
                brimmingly swimmingly
spillingly and thrillingly and chillingly and fillingly and wonderf'ly willingly
                      wet!

Text Authorship:

  • by Patrick Cardy (1953 - 2005), copyright © 1992 by Patrick Cardy, (re)printed on this website with kind permission [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Patrick Cardy (1953 - 2005), "aspects of rain", 1992 [voice and piano], from Autumn, no. 2. [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 47
Word count: 144

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