This Poem was Submitted By: Betty Lou Hebert On Date: 2000-06-24 17:49:33 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Memories of Rain

 Deep buried in the arid ground  So many dormant seeds abound  And seasons come to drift on past,  Before they stir to life at last.  The memories of falling rain  Must lie within and so sustain  Some power to regenerate.  Although for years they sometimes wait,  There'll come a day when all is right  And they start growing towards the light,  To burst upon the desert scene  With blossoms that have seldom been  Displayed for anyone and so  The crowds will come to see the show.  The Giant Blazing Star appears  And on it's four foot stalks it rears  Above so many others yet,  Their colored masses will not let  The impact of them fade away.  Orange fields of Poppies shift and sway  In slightest breeze and Desert Bell  With dark blue clusters, casts it's spell,  While smaller blossoms hug the ground  To make a carpet all around.  This gardened beauty fades away  So quickly and it's hard to say  When this will happen once again.  Most years we watch for them in vain.  Spring brings hope that ample showers  Will awaken desert flowers.

Copyright © June 2000 Betty Lou Hebert


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