When the rains come
By: Bela Johnson
Tags: climate change, gratitude, joy, random thoughts
Category: gardening, Hawaii, lifestyle, nature, poetry, Uncategorized
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and they have,
and they have –
the porous ground pulls in nutrients,
cane toads wake up from a long,
long slumber.
It has been dry in Hawai’i nei,
we have all been thirsty
for this liquid manna pouring forth
from the socked-in heavens;
breathe it in,
ears attuned to the dance
as it slides off metal rooftops
and collects in the pockets
between spongy grasses
and decaying fronds.
Envisage liver red worms
slithering freely as they convert
crumbling soil, nourish starving saplings
while half-ripened bananas arch
on rugged stalks, filling fruit
as the figs and the foliage
and the birds and the bugs
merge a chorus of thanksgiving
drowned out in this happy deluge.
Seventeen inches of rain reported in 5 hours in Hilo town, just now (on the other side of the island from us)! And still raining! Now this is the Hawai’i of old … bless this stuff! For the subtropics can’t be the subtropics without it …
god, this is gorgeous. liver red worms and socked-in heavens.
🙂 (thanks)