Sunday, September 05, 2021

Poetry Sunday


Although there are those who would tell you that climate change, or global warming, or whatever, is a hoax that evil liberal Democrats use to scare the sheep, it's pretty obvious to those with a brain that the climate is changing around us. Hurricanes are not necessarily more frequent, but are stronger and wetter, drought ruins farms, causes cities to go dry, and exacerbates the huge wildfires that char the West. The cold is colder and the hot hotter. Yep, times and weather are changing. Here's a look at how to predict those changes, at least at the local level ...

How to Foretell a Change in the Weather
by Ted Kooser

Rain always follows the cattle
sniffing the air and huddling
in fields with their heads to the lee.
You will know that the weather is changing
when your sheep leave the pasture
too slowly, and your dogs lie about
and look tired; when the cat
turns her back to the fire,
washing her face, and the pigs
wallow in litter; cocks will be crowing
at unusual hours, flapping their wings;
hens will chant; when your ducks
and your geese are too noisy,
and the pigeons are washing themselves;
when the peacocks squall loudly
from the tops of the trees,
when the guinea fowl grates;
when sparrows chirp loudly
and fuss in the roadway, and when swallows
fly low, skimming the earth;
when the carrion crow
croaks to himself, and wild fowl
dip and wash, and when moles
throw up hills with great fervor;
when toads creep out in numbers;
when frogs croak; when bats
enter the houses; when birds
begin to seek shelter,
and the robin approaches your house;
when the swan flies at the wind,
and your bees leave the hive;
when ants carry their eggs to and fro,
and flies bite, and the earthworm
is seen on the surface of things.

Have a good day. Conserve water and believe in what you see.

More thoughts coming.

Bilbo

1 comment:

Mike said...

And my right shoulder starts to ache.