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Language: Scots

Killochyett - by Andrew Dodds

{ Poem }

Killochyett! … Killochyett! …
/ The dusk is drappin’ doon;
/ The waefu’ wind is whimp’rin’ in the trees;
/ The lichts begin tae blink aboot…

March - by Andrew Dodds

{ Poem }

On Sunday gawky and glaiket,
/ For life no carin’ a preen;
/ On Monday lookin’ forsaket,
/ Wi’ a misty weet in her een;
/ On Tuesday…

Ploughing the Lea - by Andrew Dodds

{ Poem }

There’s as mony turns to the plooman’s craft
/ As jags on a common thistle;
/ There’s fower lang seasons ‘tween field and laft,
/ Wi’…

Heaven - by John M. Caie

{ Poem }

A croon, a harp, a bonnie sang,
/ Wi’ naething tae dee but tak’ wir ease,
/ An’ still-an’-on we’re loath tae gyang –…

The Greater Sea - by Rab Wilson

{ Poem }

Oor boat is rigged tae face the greater sea,
/ The day daws blithely whan we must set sail.
/ Hou aften hae we…

Thonder they ligg - by Douglas Young

{ Poem }

Frae the Gaelic o George Campbell Hay
/
/ “Thonder they ligg on the grund o the sea,
/ nae the hyne whaur they…

Sainless - by Douglas Young

{ Poem }

I hae stuid an hour o the lown midsimmer nicht
/ til twal o the knock i the leelang glamarie-licht
/ by…

For Willie Soutar, October 1943 - by Douglas Young

{ Poem }

Twenty year beddit, and nou
/ the mort-claith.
/ This suld gar ilk ane grue,
/ …

Last Lauch - by Douglas Young

{ Poem }

The Minister said it wad dee,
/ the cypress buss I plantit.
/ But the buss grew…

For Alasdair - by Douglas Young

{ Poem }

Standan here on a fogg-yirdit stane,
/ drappan the bricht flees on the broun spate,
/ I’m thinkan o ye, liggan thonder…

Chronos - by Alan Jackson

{ Poem }

A man wi’ a great big beard
/ A met;
/ Said: ‘Don’t be feared
/ If ye get wet.
/
/ Run twenty years
/ On nature’s…

Left Her Lane - by J. E. Stewart

{ Poem }

Aiblins she thocht he’d hap her doon
/ In the old kirk-yaird ayont the toon
/ Whaur the kirkspire shadows his faither’s stane…

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