Promptly Poetry

Rain 50

Rain 50

It is said (although it’s not true)
that eskimos have fifty words for snow.
The number may vary from one tale
to the next, but you get my gist
that, in the frozen north, the weather
must be, inevitably, about snow.
It explains why, in my England,
we have fifty words for rain.


Line Count: 8
Free Verse
For Promptly Poetry, Week 24
Prompt: As per illustration.