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Mood: Love

Poems about love from the Scottish Poetry Library online collection.

If I Was Dead - by Carol Ann Duffy

{ Poem }

If I was dead,
/ and my bones adrift
/ like dropped oars
/ in the deep, turning earth;
/
/ or drowned,
/ and my skull…

Peeled - by Ciara MacLaverty

{ Poem }

Is there anything I shouldn’t say?
/ Just don’t tell her
/ you’re a lapsed Catholic, you reply
/ but when your mother asks
/ I can’t bring…

Late Love - by Jackie Kay

{ Poem }

How they strut about, people in love,
/ how tall they grow, pleased with themselves,
/ their hair, glossy, their skin shining.
/ They don’t remember…

A Long Shot - by Andrew Greig

{ Poem }

As your lover on waking recounts her dreams,
/ unruly, striking, unfathomable as herself,
/ your attention wanders
/ to her moving lips, throat, those slim…

Carpe Diem - by Stewart Conn

{ Poem }

From my study window
/ I see you
/ below in the garden, a hand
/ …

Among the Blue - by Gerry McGrath

{ Poem }

Somehow I wish I could say
/ it was indifference not love
/ that found the co-ordinates
/ for cormorants among the blue
/ the blue-white gulls
/
/ tell you…

Something Rhymed - by Jackie Kay

{ Poem }

You’re a gem, you’re a holy cairn
/ You’re a clattering shaw
/ You’re a Tongland Bridge
/ You’re a Solway Firth
/ You’re a Big Water of…

Sung - by Carol Ann Duffy

{ Poem }

Now only words in a rhyme,
/ no more than a name
/ on a stone,
/ and that well overgrown –
/ MAR- …

Orkney / This Life - by Andrew Greig

{ Poem }

For Catherine and Jamie
/
/ It is big sky and its changes,
/ the sea all round and the waters within.
/ It is the way…

Landscape with Flying Man - by John Glenday

{ Poem }

I read about him that was given wings.
/ His father fixed those wings to carry him away.
/
/ They carried him halfway home,…

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