Today I built in the rain
Studs slipping on plates
Jacks refusing to hold headers
Top plates toppling
I, Making shapes, forms that stand
Contrasting the glistening, littered sky
With the bones of shelter
Heavy as iron but soft as clay
The dark ancient eyes of wood
Mocking my attempts to conform nature
In the rain, where I built all day

Dustin Orin Talley

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-stubborn-nature-of-nature/