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On Rainy Nights
By Janice Canerdy
On rainy nights, in pensive thought, I claim the respite I have sought but seldom found on sunny days. Cool drops soothe more than brightest rays in times when life's with trouble fraught.
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These introspective times have brought sweet peace and comfort when I've fought a heated battle with malaise on rainy nights.
Sweet peace of mind cannot be caught like raindrops. Nor can it be bought with tears; but when life, like a maze, confounds me, at the flow I gaze and praise the joys by nature wrought on rainy nights.
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Janice Canerdy is a retired high-school English teacher from Potts Camp, Mississippi. She has been writing poetry for decades. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Halcyon (November 2014), Lyric Magazine, Parody, Lighten Up Online, the Society of Classical Poets Journals, and the contest journals of the Mississippi Poetry Society and the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. She has had one book published, Expressions of Faith (Christian Faith Publishing, 2016).
