Beltane. The sappy rain
Is sonsie's buds o leaf
It plaps like plashy puddocks
Draps umbrellas o dreeps
That hett-fit lowp an daunce abune the reef.

Lammas. A thunner-crack
Zig-zags as bricht's a meen
An aidder's back o lichtnin licks the lan
The droothy yird unsteeks its mou tae sup
Rain teems doon, reams doon man an muir, ram-stam.
Lums an winnock-panes are drookt bi the
Cowpit cup o watter frae abune
That swalls the taps o toon, the troch o tup.

Mairtinmas. The wechty lift
Grues sair wi nip-neb wins
The flooers hing deid
An birdies sikk tae shift

Yuletime. The Sizzens birl
Furls rain tae sleet, syne snaw
The warld's grown siller an fite, in the deid-thraa
Feather, fur an flesh as cleekit in ae vice
The steeny hairt o rain, that's jeeled tae ice.