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Language: Shetlandic

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…

Höst - by Gösta Ågren

{ Poem }

Dagen är duvgrå och
/ stilla; den liknar
/ en själ. Rovfågelns klor
/ är matta som händer.
/ Hostloven faller
/ och djupnar till jord.
/ Försoning är nära.

Kvar - by Gösta Ågren

{ Poem }

Det är gryning, askan
/ efter natten. Ditt hus
/ är byggt, din kärlek
/ är död. Allt, som måste sägas,
/ har du sagt. Blicken
/ brister och slår…

St Ninian’s Isle - by Christine De Luca

{ Poem }

Hit hed ta be a saint at strayed dis far nort
/ at cared aboot da sowls o Pictish fisherfock.
/ Foo da bairns…

Brekken Beach, Nort Yell - by Christine De Luca

{ Poem }

A mile aff we catch a glisk
/ o Brekken beach: webbed
/ atween headlands, a glansin arc
/ o ancient shalls
/ sun sillered.
/
/ Waves aff Arctic floes
/ bank…

Sang oda Post War Exiles - by Robert Alan Jamieson

{ Poem }

Harry listen Harry please
/ We canna bide nae langer.
/ Da aert is tired man, sae is du,
/ We’ll sell da sheep, we’ll sell…

Pieriewys - by Robert Alan Jamieson

{ Poem }

Wielkum t’da Fokkmjoozieim
/
/ Hit’s a pieriemootie kroft
/ growin pieriemootie aets
/ fir pieriemootie jows
/ an pieriemootie horsis.
/
/ Sies du da pierie Sjaetlin ky,
/ da pierie poorie, lyin…

‘Tas varbūt būtu vislabāk…’ - by Amanda Aizpuriete

{ Poem }

Tas varbūt būtu vislabāk – nelikties zinis
/ par tipogrāfijām, nemaz nelaist klāt vārdiem
/ tos svinīgi melnos un vienādos burtus,
/ lai paliek viss mana…

Regn - by Thor Sørheim

{ Poem }

de mørk skyene flasker tunge ned
/ i tretoppene asfaltvegene farer
/ som blanke piler mot åskanten
/ dem siste lysningen forsvinner
/ som et håpløst utspark…

Metadist Metafir - by Robert Alan Jamieson

{ Poem }

Ati’da plen widdin chappil
/ at da Noarbie koarnir,
/ ati’da pierie Metadist kirk,
/
/ he likks an stikks
/ da mukkil kullirt stamps
/ a ‘Chiesis an’ is…

Juist laek Maunna - by Lise Sinclair

{ Poem }

Burrafirth, Unst circa 1870
/
/ Whin I wis a buyy, da age at platched
/ Ida troot-loch, hokkit ida burn
/ We guid heem weet, hoopful
/ Fur…

Gaet-markers - by Christine De Luca

{ Poem }

for Gabriel Lalonde, artist, Québec
/
/ At da stert, dey wir a makkin o wirds.
/ Some o da aerliest wis shurley ‘haem’
/ an wirds…

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