Life is a Garden Party: Showers

Sunday, June 4, 2017

Showers

SHOWERS

Showers were heard during the night.
The grass and plants sing in delight.
The morning is cool.
Everything looks new.
The garden could use more rain
and it’s forecasted again.

The weatherman said more rain.
I've scheduled dusting – a pain.
It’s muggy inside.
There’s a breeze outside.
What will I do – dusting or weeding?
I prefer to do the weeding.

So off to do the weeding,
then to the compost dumping,
followed by time spent digging
around the flower beds edging,
there’s even time for transplanting,
before day is done and stopping.

A whole day of yard work just flew by
with hardly a raindrop in the sky.
Much was accomplished to my satisfaction,
though not the last time for today’s action,
for weeds will continue to grow
after the rain falls down, I know.

It’s far easier to weed after the rain:
creeping charley, dandelions, plantain –
all a big pain –
and I will gain
a suntan and fingers stained once again;
though I know in the morning I will feel lame.

* * * * *

Rain waters the earth
ensuring herbs give birth,
as well as plants, flowers, and greenery
providing a pretty scenery,
cultivated by gardeners working hard
who, in return, receive blessings from God
Who’s always near
year after year.

For the earth,

which drinketh in the rain that cometh often upon it,

and bring forth herbs fit from them by whom it is tilled,

received blessings from God.

Hebrews 6:7 (KJV)

For as the rain cometh down,

and the snow from heaven,

and returned not there,

but watereth the earth,

and maketh it bring forth and bud,

that it may give seed to the sower,

and bread to the eater.