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Zaro Weil
Zaro Weil lives in an old farm on a little hill in southern France with her husband and two sheepdogs, Spot and Clementine, alongside a host of birds, insects, badgers, wild boars, crickets, donkeys, goats, hares and loads more. She has been a lot of things; dancer, theatre director, actress, poet, playwright, educator, quilt collector and historian, author, publisher to mention a few! Her poetry for children has appeared in many anthologies. She has written several books including a book of children’s poetry, Mud, Moon and Me published by Orchard Books, UK and Houghton Mifflin, USA. Mud Moon and Me can be bought here. Her newest book Firecrackers, Troika, illustrated by Jo Riddell, can be bought here. Zaro’s website is here.
Here is a lovely poem by Zaro:
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THINK OF IT
think of it
the first shudder of damp
somehow signalled
all was ready
then in the deep inside of earth
in the muted underneath of winter
spring began
not with a sudden trumpet of green
or a sky of confetti blossoms
but with a seed
small pale and barely breathing
it lay quietly
waiting for the lavender clouds
that carry the first warm rains
till for some reason as ancient and
everyday as the sun itself
the seed cracked
split and softly burst into
a faint tendril
a root a sprout
a thin wisp of a growing thing
and with no thought of stopping
it pushed through the
dark soil with the force of
a billion winter winds
until it
pierced the crust of the outside and
split the frozen armour of earth
which has held spring safe
since time began
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© Zaro Weil
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