August bows out, washed in rain
Exhilarating plants again!
Dame Nature brings us to our knees:
Flooded roads - drains blocked with leaves!
Without our brolly, we are lost!
While burnt-out Fagnes*-land counts the cost;
Its forlorn landscape, blackened, bleak
Recalls three heatwaves at their peak…
But uncertainty is Nature’s way,
She keeps us guessing every day!
To politicians we now turn
Ecology – our top concern.
The Army starts recruitment drive
To help dear Belgium to survive;
Budget shortfall, talks intense:
But we need firemen, not Defence…
(c) Poet in the woods 2026
*Les Fagnes, Eastern Belgium
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