Jennifer's Joyous Journal

Let it Rain

I think I mention the thunderstorms whenever they hit. I wish I could wax poetic about them though I'm very happy to settle on excerpting the following:

A Thunderstorm
by Emily Dickenson
The wind begun to rock the grass
With threatening tunes and low, -
He flung a menace at the earth,
A menace at the sky.

The leaves unhooked themselves from trees
And started all abroad;
The dust did scoop itself like hands
And throw away the road.

The wagons quickened on the streets,
The thunder hurried slow;
The lightning showed a yellow beak,
And then a livid claw.

The birds put up the bars to nests,
The cattle fled to barns;
There came one drop of giant rain...

Posted by jfer at June 13, 2003 4:48 PM