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March weather

Tessa Ransford

Wind in pines
wind on water
wind in rushes
wind on feather

Sun in leaves
sun on loch
sun in reeds
sun on duck

Rain in trees
rain on river
rain in moss
rain on eider

All one morning
all together
in an hour
March weather

Tessa Ransford

From The Thing that Mattered Most: Scottish poems for children edited by Julie Johnstone (SPL/B&W, 2006)

Reproduced by permission of the author.

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Tessa Ransford1938 - 2015

Poetry activist Tessa Ransford was the founder of the Scottish Poetry Library.
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