July is the month of the monsoons when nature blooms in all its glory. There can’t be a better way to enjoy a rainy day than sipping a hot cup of tea with some monsoon poetry on the side. We bring to ...

On the brink of the 19th century, in the Scottish town of Dumfries, the poet Robert Burns wrote: “the honest man, tho’ e’er sae poor / Is king o’ men for a’ that.” Two centuries later, and about 100 ...

With thick strokes of ink the sky fills with rain. Pretending to run for cover I secretly pray for more rain. Over the echo of the water, I hear a voice saying my name. No one in the city moves under ...

Compiled by Rita Gray, illus. by Ryan O'Rourke, Charlesbridge, $9.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-57091-716-5 This playful group of 20 rain-themed poems includes the works of Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, and ...

The enduring grief of the Dunblane primary school massacre in Scotland, 25 years ago, is discreetly and powerfully portrayed The rain in the night The past is falling on the house lightly, insistently ...

Young Houston poets have hidden a series of poems around Buffalo Bayou Park for National Poetry Month. Called "Rain Poems," they're written in an invisible paint that only becomes visible when it's ...