Another warm day in the height of Summer and even warmth in the freshening breeze <br />And no talk of a cool change in the weather forecast a high today of 32 degrees <br />El Nino is around the thirsty fellow sucking up every dropp of moisture he can find <br />The water levels in the town reservoir are steadily <br />dropping and everywhere dried out from sun and wind <br />The heavy thundery showers over the weekend one would not notice and everywhere is looking very dry <br />And the last few days have been so warm and windy and not one rain cloud in the clear morning sky, <br />A few weeks of rain have never been more wanting the local farmers have been praying for rain <br />Their livestock thin their water dams are almost empty for them a time of great financial pain <br />The paddocks have never looked browner or barer sheep shelter from the sun in the shade of a gum tree <br />In this the greatest drought in weather records nothing like this in living memory <br />The World is warming up and getting drier and drought has left the landscape brown and bare <br />The old bloke says the driest he can remember and he is looking far the worst for wear <br />Another warm day in the height of Summer and the water dam <br />has never been so low <br />The drains bone dry and the creek it has stopped flowing and the river only in a trickle flow.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/another-warm-day/
