Have to agree about stopping a bit early, but this caught our weather, too, perfectly. And we're suppose to be summer not winter. It will pass, & I do nto look forward to +30 for a week, which 'they' say is coming (I'm a +22 guy, myself; which is why I really enjoyed visiting Oz in May & June).
Doug
On 2012-07-04, at 2:39 AM, Patrick McManus wrote:
> Traipsing a lovely word like mooching
> Cheers P mooching today
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Max Richards
> Sent: 04 July 2012 04:06
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: 'Weather Eye'
>
> Weather Eye
>
> We're traipsing,
> dog and human,
> round the park lake,
>
> alert for raindrops and
> the darkening drift
> of rainclouds.
>
> Everyone else,
> dogs and humans,
> are in raincoats,
>
> some with umbrellas
> pessimistically
> at the ready.
>
> My neighbour's
> Jack Russell, Buddy,
> assertive, puny,
>
> looks such a wimp
> in his hoodie -
> which reads
>
> along the spine:
> I'm tougher
> than I look.
>
> If there were dog-
> umbrellas, Buddy
> would be toting one.
>
> We're not tough,
> in the shadowing
> first shower,
>
> trotting home now,
> leashed together,
> at a fast clip,
>
> one of us
> soon breathless,
> for late breakfast.
>
> From the chilly
> rain-spotted balcony
> we can see
>
> Monterey pines
> flinching; beyond,
> with the mind's eye,
>
> see the park lake
> in such weather
> getting wetter and Wetter.
>
>
> Max Richards
> Rufffey Lake Park yet again
> Doncaster, Vic.
>
Douglas Barbour
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