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Mood: Grief & Sorrow

At My Father’s Funeral - by John Burnside

{ Poem }

Didn’t we think, for a moment,
of crushing his feet
so he couldn’t return to the house
at Halloween?

Webs - by Alison Prince

{ Poem }

Tensile strength. You would have liked that phrase,
/ lecturing me on how a spider’s thread
/ is stronger bonded than a rope…

Pietà - by Alastair Mackie

{ Poem }

Her face was thrawed.
/ She wisna aa come.
/
/ In the trams o her airms
/ the wummin held oot her first bairn.
/ It…

‘Brothers, your cries…’ - by Adi Rumi

{ Poem }

Brothers, your cries
are ours too.

Departure and Departure and … - by George Bruce

{ Poem }

Someone is waving a white handkerchief
/ from the train as it pulls out with a white
/ plume from the station and rumbles…

Grief - by Sir Alexander Gray

{ Poem }

What ails you, you puir auld body?
/ What gars you greet sae sair?
/ Hae you tint the…

Sae Lang Has Sorrow - by Helen Cruickshank

{ Poem }

Sae lang has sorrow tenanted
/ The hoose o’ Life wi’ me,
/ An’ saut-like seasoned ilka meal
/ Wi’ sharpened ecstasie,
/ That gin she cam’…

Gauč - by Petr Borkovec

{ Poem }

Když jsem se dozvěděla, že Jiří umřel
/ (z Karlových Varů přišly dva telegramy,
/ jeden, že nežije, druhý, že je po pitvě),
/ nevím jak,…

Parting - by Emily Dickinson

{ Poem }

My life closed twice before its close;
/ It yet remains to see
/ If Immortality unveil
/ …

Doves, fig tree and walls - by Anna Crowe

{ Poem }

High walls, mute, shuttered windows:
/ La Cour Bastide
/ In the shady yard at break
/ in the hubbub of strange language
/ others chalked the grid…

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