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Dark and soulless, somber clouds
Lie in great and stretching shrouds
Of fog and mist, grey airborne water
Preparing for a sudden shower
Of dark, chaotic rain.
Tiny droplets slow descending
Quickening their doom impending
Lost in luscious, sun-steamed earth
Waiting for their blue rebirth
Flowing to the sea.

 

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Madeleine Bennett, age 12
Berkeley, California
Submitted independently