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The Poetry is Precipitation

The path of an introspective poet on a dark, rainy December morning.

Walter Pop Matthews IV
Picture Poetry
2 min readDec 31, 2024

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Photo by Walter P.o.p. Matthews IV

Productivity is how you run from yourself

Creativity is how you become yourself

Brianna Wiest

Salt Water

Here we are at the end of the year, and it’s interesting that as much as I’ve written about walking in the rain in the past, I didn’t have that many opportunities this year, but here we are.

That quote of Brianna’s I used resonated because I felt like pure creativity while immersed in the rain. I felt like myself.

I begin my walk and hear the sweet sounds

Of the ambient rain

And the cars crash

Into puddles that formed on the road

I chose an audiobook

It really chose me

Something that chooses

Me when I’m one

With the weather

Symbiotic

My imagination

And her cool

Gentle tears

Vibrate together

Brianna’s words

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Picture Poetry
Picture Poetry

Published in Picture Poetry

A publication dedicated to the picture-poetry format

Walter Pop Matthews IV
Walter Pop Matthews IV

Written by Walter Pop Matthews IV

A writer who has written an autobiography in poetry form, songs, a play and thought provoking commentary on various online platforms.

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