Rain Light - edit2

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Rain Light


As I sat on my porch this afternoon
cool cloud-shine flicked to thundering sun-shower:
bright instant rays of flashing icicle
filled air-space everywhere that could be seen.

This rare and cataclysmic-looking fall
spared book and watcher underneath his roof
from all but fragmentary mist and awe;
how fortunate to own a well-built house
and leisure to appreciate this rain
of beauty, sheltered by both health and wealth
sufficient to protect from want and fear.

There must be others roofless in a storm
this day who curse an unexpected drench–
must my delight yield to their misery?
It doesn’t, and I can’t see that it should.

From dry as Egyptian dust and hot as the Jornada del Muerto a.k.a. Texas:

I think you could do without lines 4-8 in second stanza and go right to the point of your last stanza, but don't make it a question that you then answer, just say it:  "My delight will not yield to their misery" (in some form).  It seems unnecessary to expand on your fortune so much to me.  

Very much enjoy those first 7 lines in stanzas 1 & 2.  

And should it be "the" storm in first line of 3rd stanza, or do you mean anywhere in the world?

TqB