Stone Soup

Where young artists paint the world with words

The international literary project for students 8 - 18. Stories, poems, and art by young writers and artists since 1973.

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Three Expressions of Rain

1:
The mist that dances on the water
wisps of light contained in tiny, glistening droplets
like fragments of crystal
the sound mystical and delicate

2:
Thick, gray sheets
pounding on the roof with giant fists
unrelenting and violent
a tempest that swirls in the sky

3:
A nonstop drizzle
muted and bleak
full of nothingness
muffled and subdued