The high woods are bathed in sunshine it is such a beautiful day <br />The rufous whistler he is whistling his song to his identity a give away <br />His kind often whistle before rain and storm perhaps a change in the weather is near <br />One knows it will rain in warm Summer weather when the songs of the birds one does hear <br />The golden billed blackbird is whistling he is singing his welcome to rain <br />How birds can sense change in the weather seems beyond humankind to explain <br />They can detect change in their environment them we tend to underestimate <br />The welcome rain in the warm and dry Summer Nature's minstrels happy to celebrate <br />The more that we learn of Nature the less about her we know we know <br />As the mother of all living life forms our wonder of her only grow <br />As well as feeding humans she feeds all life forms to our own selves we are not being true <br />If we do not love our Earth Mother and pay her the respect she is due <br />A beautiful day in December the sun shines on the woodland trees <br />And the songs of Nature's feathered minstrels are carrying in the gentle breeze.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-beautiful-day-in-december/
