Where once verdant rolling highlands...

Spanned into infinite vista
far as these myopic eyes can see

now yellowing Whitmanesque
leaves of grass encompass field of vision.

Nary a dark dreadnaught cloud in sight,

nor unbeknownst if/when threatening storm

looms on horizon slaking parched land

delivering precipitation quenching thirsty terra firma.

I too experience vicarious dehydration

during bonafide dry spell

constituting theoretical string

hoop fully curtails weather beaten
flora and fauna

conceding blindingly bright

cloudless summer days

across disc (sky)

to amply liquidate shriveling assets.

Unbeknownst when spate of rainlessness,
(i.e. I pray for moderate soaking precipitation)
thwarting immediate indications

meteorologically signalling onset

regarding definition of drought.

Nothing more humbling
than cacophonous thunderstorm

nsync with jagged bolts of lightning

accompanying drenching downpour

analogous to downed wall of water

cascading from upper atmosphere

intermittently pelting landscape

albeit immediately, magically, quixotically...

transforming parched land (Highland Manor)

into profuse lusciousness

harkening Edenic denouement.

Impossible mission (this simple bumpkin)
(one local Schwenksville yokel)
(Civil War union soldier incarnate)

to forecast today/tonight
eventide of June twenty fifth
two thousand and twenty,

when Zeus will doctor

animals and plants courtesy

of requisite life source

also known as H2O,

comprising above mentioned

two hydrogen atoms
and one oxygen atom.

Ironic, how approximately
three quarters (seventy five sense)

engulfs planet Earth,

yet many environments

suffer inadequate deluges,

more so now with climate change

(global warming) increasing temperature

across oblate spheroid

compromising habitable places,

yet methinks coronavirus (COVID-19)

gave mother nature
much needed reprieve

cleansing heavily polluted urban areas
courtesy partial lockdown and restraint,

whereby Homo sapiens
deterred, jackknifed, prohibited...
spewing noxious forth fossil fuel byproducts

encouraging, mustering,

plying, telecommuting, zooming

avast array of activities

augmented by virtual reality

technology supplanting mass transit,

thus diminishing deadly toxins

absorbed by all creatures
great and small.