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Language: Shetlandic

Hjalta - by T. A. Robertson

{ Poem }

Da eart-bark in among da girse
/ Is glintin whaar you stride,
/ An antrin seggie lowin up…

Water-Lilies - by T. A. Robertson

{ Poem }

Whin da laeves an buds o da water-lilies
/ Spread roond da loch der dark-green frill
/ I took my…

Trust - by Kenneth Steven

{ Poem }

Five days the snow had lain
/ Deep as a boot. Mouths of ice
/ Hung from roofs and windows,
/ The river slid by like…

Soldier - by Kenneth Steven

{ Poem }

I see you now, eighteen,
/ A blond curl of smile, bird’s eggs eyes –
/ No wrong in you except the one motorbike…

Det er himmel - by Arne Ruste

{ Poem }

Det er himmel for barn og himmel for trær
/ himmel for husker
/ og det er himmel for høye fjell
/ og snø
/ og himmel for…

Historien er veien som er tilbakelagt. - by Arne Ruste

{ Poem }

En dag er veien søndersprengt. Ved historiens ende star vi og spør:
/
/
/ Når var det bløte regent
/ når var den legende solen
/ Når…

Pinnsvin (Erinaceus europaeus) - by Arne Ruste

{ Poem }

Naturlig skeptisk til alt
/ som beveger seg fortere –
/ og i blind tillit til egen pels –
/ legger den seg død…

Blodyn - by Elin ap Hywel

{ Poem }

Ac mi ffrwydrith
yn llond cwpan o rosyn gwlithog
sy’n troi ei hwyneb llyfn tua’r llif
ac yn sugno’n hy o lygad y storm.

Hunang og blóð - by Thorarinn Eldjárn

{ Poem }

Til eru skáld
/ sem vakna andfúl að morgni
/ fá sér harðsoðið egg með blaðinu
/ hunang í teið
/ en frussa svo í vaskinn:
/ Oj blóðbragð
/
/ Önnur vakna
/ í…

Time circles - by Christine De Luca

{ Poem }

Mirknen haps a rummelled broch
/ on Houlland’s knowe, rowes hit
/ in a twilt o lavendar: saft smored
/ as a Danish…

Paes eggs - by Christine De Luca

{ Poem }

I dy harned haand du held ta da licht
/ een o da eggs at du wid gie her
/ morroless lik dee;…

Whatsoever things are lovely - by Christine De Luca

{ Poem }

A smoor o paets: a simmer foo
/ ta hent fae timeless broos at,
/ haddin der dark fire, cuppit
/ fair Lungawater. I da sun
/ da…

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