Exceptional When Spring showers are overdue. Spring Thirst by RodG      Quatrain Poetry Contest Winner

It's early Spring and in my yard a carnival of blooms has burst from soil wrung dry by Winter's wrath. The parched earth has a drunkard's thirst. The wilting plants all plead with me to act as Nature's hired man. A faucet groans from long disuse as I fill up my sprinkling can. Though sprinkled long and lavishly, the blossoms lap each drop I pour like orphans starved in Dickens' book. "Oh, please!" they beg. "May I have more?" I lug the can from bed to bed and sprinkle till my arm feels numb. Despite my efforts I have failed to sate their thirst: I'm truly glum. I spy black clouds stampeding east like thirsty cattle toward a stream. I hail the flowers, wave the can. "You'll be all right!" I loudly scream. Writing Prompt A quatrain is a poem that has four lines for each stanza. It usually has rhyme scheme of abab or its variant, xbyb. Click here for an example. Quatrain Poetry Contest Winner Recognized Author Notes Artwork is courtesy of Google images.

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