Drought is what many farmers face in Australia, Then they have the good years. As a retired farmer's wife, I know Drought very well.

 

PASTURES 

Green and lush

Were the pastures

That spring

when it rained and rained

and the washing wouldn't dry

and the children squabbled

and fought in the house. 

This year the country

Is bare earth.

Wind erodes

Sending dust storms

eddying drunkenly across paddocks. 

The children want to

Dance inside of them. 

The dust comes on a face today

The day the trucks took

The last of the sheep.

 

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Suitable for children 7-11. Leanna, Mitch and Shane try to save a creek from the developers for the water birds.