AUTUMN'S GONE WALKABOUT
Posted: Tue May 17, 2016 7:55 pm
AUTUMN’S GONE WALKABOUT
Jeff Thorpe © 05 May 2016
Two-thirds of Autumn gone and I’m swimming at the beach,
temperatures at twenty-eight and seemingly not dropping,
not that I’m complaining, more likely I’ll beseech
the weather God’s guarantee this show’s not ever stopping.
Who’da thought budgie smugglers the fancied clobber in May,
to be sunning on the sand like summertime’s still here,
something ‘bout the climate’s clearly gone astray,
what has caused Autumn to almost disappear?
April’s just gone down as the warmest on record,
the true three months of Summer extremely hot and dry,
if you see falling leaves in May you deserve a reward,
all this wacky weather makes one start to wonder why.
Global warming, climate change, call it what you like,
El Nino and La Nina, take your pick,
this year our usual cyclones somehow took a hike
and now it seems that Autumn’s got the flick.
What odds for Winter now that Autumn’s done a bunk,
Will it surprise us all like Leicester City?
Chances of a frosty first of June I fear are sunk,
souffle doesn’t rise twice, more’s the pity.
Everyone wants to know what’s happening with the weather
scientists and soothsayers in reply give different reasons,
for mine though it seems, until they pull together
Vivaldi’s our best hope to experience Four Seasons.
Jeff Thorpe © 05 May 2016
Two-thirds of Autumn gone and I’m swimming at the beach,
temperatures at twenty-eight and seemingly not dropping,
not that I’m complaining, more likely I’ll beseech
the weather God’s guarantee this show’s not ever stopping.
Who’da thought budgie smugglers the fancied clobber in May,
to be sunning on the sand like summertime’s still here,
something ‘bout the climate’s clearly gone astray,
what has caused Autumn to almost disappear?
April’s just gone down as the warmest on record,
the true three months of Summer extremely hot and dry,
if you see falling leaves in May you deserve a reward,
all this wacky weather makes one start to wonder why.
Global warming, climate change, call it what you like,
El Nino and La Nina, take your pick,
this year our usual cyclones somehow took a hike
and now it seems that Autumn’s got the flick.
What odds for Winter now that Autumn’s done a bunk,
Will it surprise us all like Leicester City?
Chances of a frosty first of June I fear are sunk,
souffle doesn’t rise twice, more’s the pity.
Everyone wants to know what’s happening with the weather
scientists and soothsayers in reply give different reasons,
for mine though it seems, until they pull together
Vivaldi’s our best hope to experience Four Seasons.