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Mood: Optimism & Happiness

Late show - by John Burnside

{ Poem }

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 Jane Hirshfield

{ Poem }

It was like this:
/ you were happy, then you were sad,
/ then happy again, then not.
/
/ It went on.
/ You were innocent or you…

Optimism - by Jane Hirshfield

{ Poem }

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 James Ballantine

{ Poem }

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 William Dunbar

{ Poem }

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 Helen Cruickshank

{ Poem }

Saut an’ cruel winds tae shear it,
/ Nichts o’ haar an’ rain –
/ Ye micht think the sallow…

Non Semper Imbres - by J. Logie Robertson

{ Poem }

It’s no aye rainin’ on the misty Achils,
/ It’s no aye white wi’ winter on Nigour ;
/ The…

To the Generation Knocking at the Door - by John Davidson

{ Poem }

Break — break it open; let the knocker rust:
/ Consider no ‘Shalt not,’ nor no man’s ‘must’;
/ And, being entered, promptly take…

For the Opening of the Scottish Parliament, 9 October 2004 - by Edwin Morgan

{ Poem }

Open the doors! Light of the day, shine in; light of the mind, shine out!
/ We have a building which is…

The possibility of rain… - by Jaan Kaplinski

{ Poem }

The possibility of rain… If rain is possible
/ everything is possible: spinach, lettuce, radish and dill,
/ even carrots and potatoes, even black
/ and…

Ship - by Carol Ann Duffy

{ Poem }

In the end,
/ it was nothing more
/ than the toy boat of a boy
/ on the local park’s lake,
/ where I walked with you.
/
/ But…

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