How To Mow When It Rains Every Day (or The Never Ending Summer Battle To Mow The Lawn Before It Rains)

How To Mow When It Rains Every Day

Cutting Grass – How To Mow When It Rains Every Day is especially for nature lovers who enjoy poems about the adventures of man against nature!

I step outside
to smell the grass
freshly cut
sweetly fragrant.

Lawnmowers growl
and prowl the
neighborhood

trimming
whopping
chopping

blade upon blade
ferociously devouring
the luscious carpet
before the next rain.

We are in a wet season
punctuated by glaring
bursts of sun

relentless heat driving
an overgrowth
of green

backyards turning
into fields
of wildness

heavy cutting equipment
bogging in the
saturated earth.

Today the ground is firm
enough to withstand
the mowers.

The clouds are withholding
raindrops, like mothers 
gathering their young

for one more embrace
one last kiss before
opening the gates

to let them run free
raining joyously
in a summer frenzy.

"Hurry, hurry," coax the
tractor cowboys, urging
their machines onward

for one last round as
the dust kicks up and
the trees laugh and sway

and the clouds clap
with thunder
cheering their children
in wonder.

The riders dismount
shoulders slump in defeat.
Engines fall silent
as rain drums a beat.

The raindrop children
have come out to play.
The man-made machines
are done for the day.