{"id":1267,"date":"2016-12-22T05:29:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T05:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2020-02-26T09:52:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T09:52:37","slug":"maybe-tomorrow-the-rain-will-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"Maybe Tomorrow the Rain Will Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>And still no sign of the rain that we desperately need&#8230;..<\/em><\/strong><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1268\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/TOOTG-Rain-Falling-Frame-01.jpg\" alt=\"tootg-rain-falling-frame-01\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/TOOTG-Rain-Falling-Frame-01.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/TOOTG-Rain-Falling-Frame-01-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/TOOTG-Rain-Falling-Frame-01-644x363.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Maybe tomorrow the rain will come,<br \/>Maybe tomorrow we\u2019ll hear the drops drum<br \/>On the tin roofs, so tortured by heat<br \/>And so desperate to feel those rain drops beat.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Maybe tomorrow we will feel on our face<br \/>Those long cooling drops falling from space,<br \/>Soaking the ground as well as our clothes,<br \/>Maybe tomorrow, but who really knows.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Maybe tomorrow the farmers can smile,<br \/>As the rain comes after such a long while;<br \/>Stock they can\u2019t feed, crops wilt and die.<br \/>They say rain tomorrow, but is it a lie?<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Maybe tomorrow, the forecasters say,<br \/>But with our emotions they must never play,<br \/>For once they just need to get their facts straight,<br \/>As for the rain we all anxiously wait.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Maybe tomorrow we\u2019ll wake up to feel<br \/>The cooler weather as the dark clouds steal<br \/>Across the blue sky, promising us that rain,<br \/>Maybe tomorrow, but are we hoping in vain?<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-2613 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01.jpg\" alt=\"TOOTG Copyright 2016-2020 01\" width=\"132\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01.jpg 5000w, http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01-768x461.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01-644x386.jpg 644w, http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01-1200x720.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 132px) 100vw, 132px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And still no sign of the rain that we desperately need&#8230;.. Maybe tomorrow the rain will come,Maybe tomorrow we\u2019ll hear the drops drumOn the tin roofs, so tortured by heatAnd so desperate to feel those rain drops beat. Maybe tomorrow we will feel on our faceThose long cooling drops falling&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/?p=1267\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[316],"tags":[34,191,190,20,11,10,189,30,12,83,31],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-natural-world","tag-at-home","tag-drought","tag-farming","tag-mother-nature","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-rain","tag-reflecting","tag-rhymes","tag-tomorrow","tag-verse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phbx6B-kr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2764,"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/2764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}