Four Seasons: In One Day Kiwi Weather Poem by Terence George Craddock

summer highs blowing off continent Australia
superheated blowing across hot Australian deserts
blown out across evaporation rising Tasman Sea
Antarctic low rising up off continent Antarctica
smashes into Australian high off wild west coast
of New Zealand smashed against Southern Alps
a blessing uncertainty of a subtropical climate
here winter can be white in cold southern regions

at low lying levels when a cold front moves in
but even in Christmas summer here snow can fall
sometimes in the land of four seasons in one day
landscape trees can be distinctive wind weathered
in exposed coastal regions kiwi weather can change
swift tropical subtropical low-pressure systems play


Terence George Craddock (Afterglows Echoes Of Starlight)
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