Rain, please!

The poem below is one I wrote in the summer, but the same feeling is true for me today. All this wonderful spring growth is coming up. Gardens have been planted by hopeful gardeners. Tiny seedlings have been transplanted as well as new hardy perennials. But we need rain! Every day the percentage chance goes down. It is Thirsty Thursday here at Prairie Hill, and we are out doing tasks like watering. (And will gather at 5:00 to quench our thirst and feed our stomachs.) We have many trees, shrubs and perennials like raspberries up on our hill who need water badly, and since they are not reachable by hoses, we have to drive our "Mule" up with a load of water. It is indeed "Thirsty Thursday" for the plants as well as us. A rain dance would be appropriate today! 


Rain Dance


god of summer weather,

who brings wind to chase away mosquitoes

     and freshen still air.

Who shepherds clouds to cool thick heat

    and turn colors vivid deep.

Who pulls up the heavy sun at horizon's far line

    to shoot like a drug into green leaves,

     and warm the rocks of snakes.

You who moves through our world

     with casual power of life and death,


Might you find it in your cosmic schedule

     to blow a little rain my way?

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