As the dark clouds of rain are gathering in the sky <br />The birds sing and whistle in the parkland nearby <br />From listening to Nature's creatures knowledge of weather we do gain <br />The birds always whistle and sing before rain <br />The sun in the heavy clouds hidden away <br />It was only seen out for a brief while today <br />Two days ago it was thirty five degrees <br />Today it is twenty and rain in the breeze <br />The magpie is piping on a wattle tree <br />And the magpie lark can be heard calling pee wee <br />And the golden billed blackbird has rain in his song <br />As forecasters of weather the birds never do get it wrong <br />The rain will be welcome since El Nino of moisture has sucked the ground dry <br />And the moorhen in the pond utters forth her shrill cry.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/as-the-dark-clouds-of-rain/
