Arise and Umbrellize
©2014 Susan Noyes Anderson
Image by Kagan Bastimar on Pexels
Umbrellas offer solid proof
that weather’s not in vain.
Surely, a drop of rain
deserves a bit of notice.
What shoddy arrogance denies
the weeping skies in
heads left bare and
hats left home?
Don’t float the notion soggy hair
is any less than an affront.
A front deserves respect.
This rain works hard for you.
Don’t dis the dew.
Arise and umbrellize!
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Tags: humor. tongue-in-cheek, nature, practicality, preparation, rain, umbrellas, weather
Susan Noyes Anderson
Susan Noyes Anderson is the author of At the End of Your Rope, There’s Hope, Deseret Book, ©1997; Awaken Your Spiritual Power: The Fairy Godmother Isn’t Coming!, Karisma Press, ©1999; and His Children (poetry only, photos are by Anita Schiller), Vantage Point Press, ©2003.