Ode to the Earthworm

Dr. Abe V Rotor

Living with Nature School on Blog

Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (People's School-on-Air) with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 DZRB AM Band, 8 to 9 evening class, Monday to Friday

 Common garden earthworm

I wonder how you forewarn

the coming of flood.

Do you also hear, like Noah,

the voice of God?

Make soundings, anticipate

a torrential rain?

You’re but an Annelid,

with neither eyes nor brain.

At the heels of the farmer,

where dead leaves lay,

You make humus,

product of your laboratory;

Setting life anew

through seasons for all to gain,

You jolt our lazy bench,

before a deluge comes again.

NOTE: Earthworms can sense the coming of rainstorm and flash flood. 

They abandon their burrows, and head for higher ground.