Duhallow In March

The morning is drizzly with a damp March chill
In the freshening wind blowing down from the hill
The Boggeragh Ranges are cloaked in the gray fogs of rain
And brown storm water flowing in every field drain

The soughing of the wind in bare deciduous trees
On a weather forecast high for the day of a mere five degrees
The cattle in the farmyard sheds bellowing for silage or hay
And real Spring is at least some four weeks away

The redwing thrushes have gone north to their breeding ground
Though signs of Winter still linger around
The old fields where grass as of yet does not grow
And the waterways bank high from the high fields does flow

Though to nicer Spring weather every dawning draws near
Ireland not an ideal holiday destination in March of the year
At least not for a sun loving young woman or man
You will not return home from there with a suntan

Some fifty kilometers inland from the Atlantic Sea
Duhallow weather-wise in March not a nice place to be
Where rain free days are few and the sun often hidden away
For most of the day behind clouds of gray.