Monday, 20 May 2013

Living on the moon


Living on the moon

Blazing June – it’s more like gloom
Packed away our swimming costumes!
The seasons now are by the by -
Look up to the heavens, breathe a sigh.
Any sun has gone by mid-afternoon.
Must be like living on the moon.

It’s dark and cold; there’s so much mould;
The showers and wind have taken hold.
Our climate is in disarray -
We’ll have to sledge ride every day!
The snow and rain is now threefold
Our boots have now all been resoled.

Air currents in the stratosphere
We cannot see and do not hear,
The polar jets ‘round south and north -
The frenzy that they bring henceforth!
Meander around our earthly sphere -
Our weather systems’ got quite queer!

And when we’ve all learned how to ski -
Got used to drinking frozen iced tea;
Get rid of all our humble freezers -
Start bathing in some pools of geysers!
Warmest beach now the North Sea!
Put up a permanent Christmas tree!

Our breakfast dinner and tea, it seems
Now flavoured with helpings of ice cream.
Look up at the dark sky and scream -
We need a new incentive scheme!
Hot weather now a distant dream -
We’re in the hands of the jet stream.

Copyright Linda Lawrence
17th May 2013





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