Mang Teban and The Weather by Josue Rem Siat (Philippines)

One April noon when all was bright

And clear and dazzling to the sight

Beside the road Mang Teban stood

Wiping his face in sullen mood.

He saw the heat waves in the glare

As devils on to stage a fire

And chafed in the sultry air

And wished for rainy days.

Then (when salt sold at treble price)

And muddy pools mocked cloudy skies,

Mang Teban, passing dripping trees,

With trousers rolled up to his knees,

Reproached the sky and saw the rain

As diablos dancing in the mire-

And shrank in the pelting rain-

And wished for sunny days!

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This poem showed one of the Filipino's attitude which was "we change our decisions, mind or what we want easily." Mang Teban at first wished that the rainy day season must come because it was too hot and the soil was very dry. He cannot even plant a single crop in his farm beacuse it will not grow in a soil which is lack in the nutrients that it needs. Then when the rainy season came, the soil in his farm became a pool of mud. Because of that, Mang Teban wished that the sunny days should come so that the soil will become dry and he can plat crops in it. Plants need water but the water thatyou will give it should be enough and not too much of what it need because the plant may die....