May Showers

 

May showers here and want to stay

make the grass flash out

fill in spaces bare dirt places

make a lawn somehow.

Mowed it this past weekend

thick weeds grown real high

looks some better still a leper

with a haircut

fine. 

Oatmeal mixed with strawberries

for beakfast this dark morn

watching scenic video

Sequoias skyward borne.

Music and some ancient views

not a bird bark here

maybe they are hunkered down

lightning

charged the air.

Not the kind seems worrying

no wind or breeze at all

but unattaching a few things

in case it comes for us.

So, of course, it doesn't

thunder goes away

silence in the living room

the tv off

Okay.

Still I have the phone to write

lets  put the  poem aside

let it grow just as the lawn

one rough day at a time.

Let the spot between my eyes

think about the rhymes

put a few together

explode them when it's time.

Yesterday was Mother's Day

with thoughts of struggles too

waiting for her thunder

remembering her views.

As she fed us every day

helped us with new clothes

every year school started with

the new Sears catalog.

Mom's are always listening

I hear them often speak

have a little cry  o'er us

could thunder be their beat?

They know something is coming

research all the pain

tell me mom what's happening

thank you  for the rain 

Ladies from the neighborhood

gathered under trees

in a circle with iced coffee

enjoyed a summer breeze. 

I think they still are at it

up there with their drinks

three quarter cent

since they were here

5k realty street.

Solid little boxes

basement and a den

mothers up and down

the road

always

eyes on kids.

In the twilight racing

laughter after dark

as I listened in my room

momma said don't start.

Mosquitoes nearly killed me

or the stuff they sprayed

reaper ever present

5k coffins

graves.

Only took me sixty years

to figure out her charm

she thought she was

protecting me

her little bug from harm.  

Still she had a rock garden

a flowering affair

and children ran

through yards till ten

I heard them all out there.   

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