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Dòchas

Maoilios Caimbeul
Myles Campbell

Dòchas –
rionnag anns na speuran.

Dùil –
rocaid agus rionnag anns na speuran.

Creideamh –
adhar làn rionnagan.

Cinnt –
grian a’ deàrrsadh


Maoilios Caimbeul
Myles Campbell

‘Dòchas’, from Eileanan (Roinn nan Cànan Ceilteach, 1980), by permission of the author

 

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Translations of this Poem

Hope

Hope –
star in the skies.

Expectation –
rocket and star in the skies.

Faith –
sky full of stars.

Certainty –
sun shining.

Source: Translation from Ronald Black (ed.), An Tuil (Polygon, 1999), by permission of Birlinn Ltd

About this poem

This poem was reproduced on a postcard for National Poetry Day 2015. Eight poetry postcards are published each year by the Scottish Poetry Library to celebrate National Poetry Day and are distributed throughout Scotland to schools, libraries and other venues. The theme for 2015 was ‘light’.

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Maoilios Caimbeul
Myles Campbell b.1944

Maoilios Caimbeul/Myles Campbell is a poet, novelist and teacher, working mainly in Scottish Gaelic and living on Skye.
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