A Winter's Day Poem by Francis Duggan

A Winter's Day



It has rained all through the night and for most of the day
And the farmers for more rain they do even pray
For lots of more rain as they look to the sky
For the Summer and Autumn were warm and dry.

In Summer and Autumn the paddocks brown and bare
And rain to the farmers worth more than a prayer
With lots of more rain and a warm and dry Spring
The farmers with joy they will whistle and sing.

The floodwaters gurgling in the stormwater drain
And the magpie he pipes in the wind and the rain
Though his feathers are drenched he does not seem to care
There is a wild beauty in his familiar air.

The darkening rain clouds they are crossing the sky
In the depths of the Winter in early July
And the creek flows bank high as it babbles on down
Through the paddocks now greening that often look brown.

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