Flashback Friday: Heat, Wind and Rain

Hello and happy Friday! 
This has been a week of unbearably hot weather, punctuated by sudden rain and thunderstorms in much of Eastern Canada. Isn't it amazing how nature speaks? What wonder in its self-modulating ways.
Ironically, this experience reminds me of my younger days in the tropics, as expressed in the following except from the poem, "Youngsters in Rainy-Day Play" (which appears in Let's Do Lemonade):

With the onset of rain
Our dear, foreboding elders
Long settled indoors
Would beckon us in from their comfortable perch
With deep concern and certain insistence
That we would catch germs in the runoff
Or equally catastrophic
That we would contract a cold
Because of heads uncovered in the lively torrents
 ..........
Albeit, quite interestingly
If we ignored or delayed following the adult-directive
To get indoors immediately
Sudden roars of thunder
Under mysteriously blackened skies
And the rapid claps of lightning
Would conspiringly make a compelling case to relocate
More so than the dreaded prospect of discipline
By switch or strap
Which kept friendly company with our elders
All together cool and dry
 
#thunderstorm #heatwave #climatechange