Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/weekly-poem-rain-light Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Weekly Poem: ‘Rain Light’ Arts Dec 29, 2008 4:33 PM EDT By W.S. Merwin All day the stars watch from long ago my mother said I am going now when you are alone you will be all right whether or not you know you will know look at the old house in the dawn rain all the flowers are forms of water the sun reminds them through a white cloud touches the patchwork spread on the hill the washed colors of the afterlife that lived there long before you were born see how they wake without a question even though the whole world is burning Editor’s note: Watch Jeffrey Brown’s conversation with W.S. Merwin and learn more about the poet by visiting the NewsHour’s Poetry Series.
By W.S. Merwin All day the stars watch from long ago my mother said I am going now when you are alone you will be all right whether or not you know you will know look at the old house in the dawn rain all the flowers are forms of water the sun reminds them through a white cloud touches the patchwork spread on the hill the washed colors of the afterlife that lived there long before you were born see how they wake without a question even though the whole world is burning Editor’s note: Watch Jeffrey Brown’s conversation with W.S. Merwin and learn more about the poet by visiting the NewsHour’s Poetry Series.