A rhyming poem about the Ark-La-Tx and Shreveport having excessive rainfall this year. |
Today is Thursday, the 21st day of May, 2015, and a hard rain is pouring down yet again from dark, gray skies, causing the lakes and rivers more strain. In Shreveport the Red River roars along, a roiling, churning, debris-filled torrent wild and dangerous, currently too strong for safe boating -- with sinking abhorrent. As the Red nears its thirty-feet flood stage, boat launches stay closed; the port’s lock and dam shut down from the height on the water gauge. “Hey, Mother Nature, stop the rain, please ma’am.” Shreveport’s total rainfall is now more than half again above the normal amount for this year thus far. The Ark-La-Tx can absorb no more water! People can count on more rainfall causing local flooding. Storms bring tornado and flash flood warnings to threaten day after day. This drubbing must stop! The lack of sunshine we’re mourning. Enough rain already! Give us sunny days to enjoy. End our water-logged pain. Pardon me for not finding it funny to hear “Come August we’ll wish for this rain.” Please check out my ten books: http://www.amazon.com/Jr.-Harry-E.-Gilleland/e/B004SVLY02/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0 |