Preview edition — Poet of Rain & Harvest is still in progress. The poem is as it appears in the video; the commentary is a working draft.
Hello May, I hope your purpose to stay awhile be worth it I pray
You have come to our arms with a tray of wonder and wishes to say
Pour rains to the gardens and good rays to my hay
To reap abundantly and help a doubtful fellow pay his debt of sorrow away
May you bloom lives this month in good ways
In the mayhem and dismay, free many from been led astray
Hello May, camping by the fireside and watching the moon across the bay,
I often thought outside life's maze whenever I roast some sticks of maize that are gathered to lay
So May, flourish and bestow onto the season, springs of gifts with no delay
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Commentary
This short poem is a greeting and a prayer. The speaker welcomes May like a guest, asks it for rain and sun on the farm, and hopes it will bring relief to people who are struggling.
The speaker greets May with the hope that its “purpose to stay awhile” will be “worth it.” May arrives “with a tray of wonder and wishes to say,” and the speaker asks it to “pour rains to the gardens and good rays to my hay.”
The requests grow larger: to “reap abundantly” and “help a doubtful fellow pay his debt of sorrow away,” and to “bloom lives” and “free many from been led astray” in a month of “mayhem and dismay.”
In the last lines the speaker is “camping by the fireside and watching the moon across the bay,” thinking “outside life’s maze” while roasting maize. The poem ends with a command to May to “flourish and bestow onto the season, springs of gifts with no delay.”