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Ashey Lane

Kate Barrett

Always
Solitary
Home
Excellent
Yet
Lonely
And I wish it
Never
Empty.

Kate Barrett

From Stromness writing group celebrating our town by the sea: acrostic poems based on Stromness street names (Stromness: Northlight Gallery, 2017).

Reproduced with the permission of the author.

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21st century poems acrostics Best Scottish Poems 2017 Despair & Loneliness English Homesickness scottish poems
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