~ by Donna L. Ferguson Dudley
She’s stomping through the puddles; how she loves to make them splash!
She loves the Spring rains very well, but not the lightning flash!
So, only during gentle rains, she takes her promenades.
Her best friend lives just down the street; she’s going there to
play!
She’s got her red galoshes on, her slicker, and rain hat,
and overhead her umbrella; not much rain gets through that!
But how she loves to smell the scent that showers always bring,
while on the picket fence, a Robin Red-breast starts to sing!
He’s happy for the rains to come and loosen up the ground.
He knows that that is when the earthworms are most easily found!
She has her doll and bear, well-dressed, in special rain-gear too!
She’s planning out her afternoon, and all there is to do
with her best friend, to play with, while they listen to the rain,
and watch the world get sparkling clean beyond the window pane!