Rain Goddess

Nine Muses to infuse what's merely prose
with qualities of poetry and art.
Nine goddesses committed to help those
who struggle for a chance to touch your heart.
They knew, the Greeks, they well knew that the Muse,
as overworked a goddess as can be,
shall do her outmost, tolerate abuse,
so those true wonders reach both you and me.
But in the list of Muses to behold
a gaping need, a sorely vacant gap.
In all the stories that the ancients told,
one Muse is absent, nowhere on the map.
On dark and stormy nights, she cries above.
Queen of the rain, Calandra, sends her love.

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2784984-What-the-Muse-inspires-on-a-rainy-day