Tessa Ransford OBE, Hon.DUniv (Paisley), MA, Dip Ed
Poetry Practitioner and Adviser
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KASHMIR

You speak with me in dream - eastern ascetic man
Commune with me whatever we seem to say
  When I ask you where you come from
     Turning you look at me telling "Kashmir".

High land of sapphires, walnut and mulberry
Whose lakes reflect the hills in their violet depths
  Glaciers melt to crystal rivers
     Kingfishers skim amid water lilies.

The Fisher King may dwell in the Shalimar
And we catch fire - to selve and to bear the light
  Whose the face we each reflect?
     Jesus the one and the thousand thousand.

Kashmir afar I love and remember you
Fine wool, fine rice, fine silk such as dreamers find
  Once in life and ever long for
     Now I must rest in the bluebird’s promise.
 
Tessa Ransford

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