Drought

How much nature herself suffers from drought! It seems quite as much as she can do to produce these crops. - Thoreau

watering the grass in his boxer shorts

flinging dog s**t at passers-by

cursing in gibberish

eating food long past expiration date

he was in pain

insane in the membrane

a fate worse than that which abel suffered at the hands of cain

i blame it on no rain

Author's Note

“The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood the parched uplands; even this may be the eventful year, which will drown out all our muskrats. It was not always dry land where we dwell.” - Thoreau

Reviews

[Betty Hermelee]

Indeed, we are in a weird state of affairs Pete, old man rain has not shown his face in many parts of the world where people are in starvation... from cracked earth to wilting flowers, to brown grass....yet in southern U.S...we are having floods...I guess we have to blame it on global warming.... and it's way too hot as well....when the earth is parched...so are we...like Thoreau says" The life in us is like the water in the river"... and that's true...great comparison
Warmly, B

[Pete]

the world and things are changing so quickly that it makes me dizzy. thanks for sharing b.

[Betty Hermelee]

Always a pleasure Pete🌷
Warmly, B

[Coyote Poetry]

Hot in Michigan too. I am more polite. I am wearing my bathing suit. Nice dance of words. made me smile this morning. Thank you Pete for sharing the entertaining poetry.
Coyote

[Poetic Beauty]

We don’t always acknowledge it but the weather can definitely affect our moods and make us agitated or slightly insane when it’s too hot and lack of rain. Many things can affect our mood when it come to nature including a full moon. Luckily your man wasn’t showing his lol

[Pete]

it sure can. the last few days we've had a heat wave and i've noticed folks getting mean, nasty and impatient. thoreau probably swam naked in walden pond. lol. thanks pb.

[Poetic Beauty]

We have heat in the triple digits and upper 90s for two weeks and we haven’t had rain for two weeks

[Pete]

we almost hit 100 yesterday. last evening we had a thunderstorm that cooled things off a little but it's still hot and humid. going up to about 87 inland here today. boston proper is supposed to get a seabreeze later during the celtics celevration parade.

[Poetic Beauty]

It already 89 degrees at almost 10 am

[Kelly Scheppers]

You can do magic, Pete. I am convinced of it every single time I read your inspirations by Thoreau!

[Pete]

well look what the cat dragged in! hi kelly! as you well know, music and thoreau inspire much in me. hope all is well with you. this heat wave is brutal.