Mountain Rains
Cascading rivulets, turning to torrents
in their downward flight, changing
from cloth of lace into a candy-floss of foam.
White arrows, resplendent on the mountain,
forever falling, forging onward to the lakes;
swollen now with fast increasing rain.
The mountain host disappears above the cloud,
perhaps to reach forever to the sun —
awaiting the watered rays that filter through,
forbidding, once again, the solar tears.
When time has once more passed an hour
the mountain top appears, still white-tipped,
easing through in regal splendour,
allowing torrents to turn again to lace.
© 1976 : Colin Gordon-Farleigh
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