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As your lover on waking recounts her dreams,
/ unruly, striking, unfathomable as herself,
/ your attention wanders
/ to her moving lips, throat, those slim…
Poems about love from the Scottish Poetry Library online collection.

As your lover on waking recounts her dreams,
/ unruly, striking, unfathomable as herself,
/ your attention wanders
/ to her moving lips, throat, those slim…
From my study window
/ I see you
/ below in the garden, a hand
/ …
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…
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…
Now only words in a rhyme,
/ no more than a name
/ on a stone,
/ and that well overgrown –
/ MAR- …
For Catherine and Jamie
/
/ It is big sky and its changes,
/ the sea all round and the waters within.
/ It is the way…
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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