Metallic Blue

My eyes search desperately for the rain
I’ll dance in April’s showers if they should ever come again
I know to you, it might sound strange

Unbroken blue fills our celestial span
Mechanical streams flow to seaside sands
My eyes search desperately for the rain

Daffodils bloom, shrivel and are gone
Bluebells hang silent in suffocating sun
I know to you, it might sound strange

Village ponds cracked open, completely drained
Un-natural heat pervades this arid spring
My eyes search desperately for the rain

Potato fields crumble to grain
Dust is blowing down country lanes
I know to you, it might sound strange

Frog spawn lie in desiccated ponds
Herring gulls cry that’s something’s wrong
My eyes search desperately for the rain
I know to you, it might sound strange

~

n.b. Attempted Villanelle based on prompt from NapoWriMo 2025
The lines: 
My eyes search desperately for the rain / I know to you, it might sound strange
Taken from 
‘I wish it would rain’ by The Temptations. Written by Norman Whitfield / Barrett Strong / Rodger Sr. Penzabene

CLP 13/04/2025