Rainwalk Poem by Kelsey Gallant

When I looked outside my window
And saw rain drizzling down
And heard wind rustling the branches
In the large New Hampshire town

I ran to tell my Mommy,
“We have to take a walk!
It’s raining and it’s windy
So let’s walk around the block! ”

We quickly put our shoes on
And hurried out the door
And skipped together, hand in hand
In the great downpour

As we walked along the sidewalk,
Our faces getting wet,
My mom and I were happy;
The rain was not a threat.

When we made it to the corner,
The wind whipped back our hair
We laughed and smiled together,
We didn’t have a care.

We stopped to watch a water torrent
Funnel down a drain
Twisting, twirling, turning
Through a tunnel filled with rain

We strolled by several houses,
And cars drove by, a few,
But the only ones out walking
Were my mom and me, us two.

We huffed up big hills in the road
And ran down other ones,
It gave us lots of exercise,
And made our day more fun.

Soon, too soon, we made it
Back to where we’d started out
We puddled down the driveway
And back into the house.

We dried off and went back to
What we’d had planned that day,
Mommy went to make some lunch,
And I went up to play.

But we both knew that the next time
The weather was the same,
We would take another walk outside
To enjoy the wind and rain.

(Published in Print in 'DeSSerted Island: Poem Collection' - 2014)