The Legless Man - by
(The Dark Side)
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/ My mind goes back to Fumin Wood, and how we stuck it out,
/ Eight days of hunger, thirst and…
Mood: Optimism & Happiness
At Eighty - by
Push the boat out, compañeros,
push the boat out, whatever the sea.
Who says we cannot guide ourselves
through the boiling reefs, black as they are,
the enemy of us all makes sure of it!
The Letter Always Arrives at its Destination - by
Then I wrote often to the sea,
/ to its sunk rope and its salt bed,
/ to the large weed mass lipping the…
Happy Thought - by
The world is so full of a number of things
/ I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Mon-doria - by
Mon-doria,
/ my heart’s river,
/ overflowing
/ with joy and song,
/ you skip softly,
/ …
Late show - by
I only watch reruns now,
/ or films about geese,
/
/ and yet I’m waiting for the miracle
/ I used to find in early black…
It Was Like This: You Were Happy - by
It was like this:
/ you were happy, then you were sad,
/ then happy again, then not.
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/ It went on.
/ You were innocent or you…
Optimism - by
More and more I have come to admire resilience.
/ Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam
/ returns over and over…
Ilka Blade o’ Grass Keps its ain Drap o’ Dew - by
Confide ye aye in Providence, for Providence is kind,
/ And hear ye a’ life’s changes wi’ a calm and tranquil mind.
/ Tho’…
‘Be mery, man, and tak nocht fer in mynd’ - by
Be mery, man, and tak nocht fer in mynd
/ The wavering of this wrechit vale of sorrow.
/ To God be huimle and…
Sea Buckthorn - by
Saut an’ cruel winds tae shear it,
/ Nichts o’ haar an’ rain –
/ Ye micht think the sallow…
Non Semper Imbres - by
Thus Nature sorrows, and forgets her sorrow ;
And Reason soberly approves her way :
Why should we shut oor een against to-morrow
Because our sky was clouded yesterday ?