Tag: childhood 1 2 next › last » Showing 1-10 of 13 results Wynd by Andrew Greig It’s back again, the how of rain / pleating off leaky roans, binding / strands that curve down stanks,... Echoes by Liang Wern Fook Grandad says, yesterday’s locked away in the old building / I cast the key, feel the entire door / Keyhole’s not to be found / / Grandad... Modern Secrets by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim Last night I dreamt in Chinese. / Eating Yankee shredded wheat / I said it in English / To a friend who answered / In monosyllables: / All of which... Loch Thom by W. S. Graham 1 / / Just for the sake of recovering / I walked backward from fifty-six / Quick years of age wanting to see, / And managed not to trip... Winter Bairns by Donald Campbell Winter bairns are happed in snaw, / singing merrily on the brae. / Cauld aneuch the wind micht blaw, / it winna worry sic as they. / / In... Blaeberry Mou by William Soutar The flitterin faces come doun the brae / And the baskets gowd and green; / And nane but a blindie wud speer the day / Whaur... Street Talk by J. K. Annand There was a rammie in the street, / A stishie and stramash. / The crabbit wifie up the stair / Pit up her winda sash. / / “Nou... Trouble is not my middle name by Liz Lochhead Trouble is not my middle name. / It is not what I am. / I was not born for this. / Trouble is not a place / though... My House by George Bruce My house / Is granite / It fronts / North, / / Where the Firth flows, / East the sea. / My room / Holds the first / / Blow from the North, / The first from East, / Salt upon... Gree, Bairnies, Gree by William Miller The moon has rowed her in a cloud, / Stravaging win’s begin / To shuggle and daud the window-brods, / ... 1 2 next › last »
