The corellas on the tall gums are calling as darkness is cloaking the sky <br />The evening is calm though 'tis raining and we need rain the ground is so dry <br />This evening the farmer is happy his water tanks filling in the rain <br />Nice to hear the spluttering of rain water down the guttering to the storm water drain <br />Yes the farmer with the rain is happy with the warmer days of Summer ahead <br />The long spells of droughts and of bushfires of such things he does live in dread <br />In these times of climate change and global warming we do get some weather extremes <br />For our polluting of our natural environment our price to pay it will be huge it seems <br />With farm dams and smaller waterways drying out less water birds for to be seen <br />The countryside dry and brown looking as brown as it ever has been <br />The rain has never been more welcome the happy farmer has cause to smile <br />In the Winter and Spring little rainfall we have not seen heavy rain for some-while <br />The sound of the rain on the galvanize roofs is a pleasant sound for to hear <br />And the farmer he is looking happier at the end for him of a hard year.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/this-evening-the-farmer-is-happy/
