Tessa Ransford OBE, Hon.DUniv (Paisley), MA, Dip Ed
Poetry Practitioner and Adviser
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  In January, when the light is weakest, Turner's watercolour paintings are exhibited in the National Gallery of Scotland. This gave me the concept of a watercolour poem.

A WATERCOLOUR POEM

A watercolour poem to be held
for opening only in the weakest light
a poem of resilience and routine,
the dimmer kind, accepting, reticent
not set to prove itself, fight some good fight
but oblivious to its own design
not noticeable even, noticing
likeness, oddness, traces lingering
The muddy pathway purified in snow
and hillside magnified in frosty sky
that full moon, thirteenth in the year,
on Ne'er Day, ominous, unusual, blue
widefarer, presageful, to clarify
the watercolour faith that thaws our fear

Tessa Ransford

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