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ageing

Care Hame - by Gerda Stevenson

{ Poem }

I gove sae lang at ae space –

whit else tae dae? –

I’m seein the white o ma ain een.

My Heart Leaps Up - by William Wordsworth

{ Poem }

The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.

Approaching Sixty - by John Burnside

{ Poem }

In the Central Café
/ in Innsbruck,
/ a girl in a dark-blue dress
/ unlooses her hair from its clasp
/ so it falls to her waist,…

Remembering Friends Who Feared Old Age and Dementia More than Death - by Douglas Dunn

{ Poem }

No one
Looks forward to being old and alone,
The carer with a spoon,
Visitor gone

An Old Woman Cooking Eggs - by Anne Shivas

{ Poem }

That’s me in the painting.
/ My face smooth and brow clear,
/ for I do not worry over
/ what I cannot see.

To Margaret on a Monday - by Joan Ure

{ Poem }

I saw you from my window, Margaret.
/ I was watching the seagulls swooping the sky.
/ The seagulls, I was telling myself, know
/ today…

Almorness - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

The tide is sidling up to Almorness, / unmet by those returned now north & west / away from here.

The Way - by Edwin Muir

{ Poem }

Friend, I have lost the way.
/ The way leads on.
/ Is there another way?
/ The way is one.
/ I must retrace the track.
/ It’s lost…

On a Birthday - by Marion Angus

{ Poem }

Time, why are you going so fast?
/ I like not furious paces.
/ Milestones glimmer and then are past,
/ …

As Time Draws Near - by Iain Crichton Smith

{ Poem }

As time draws near
/ the end of our days
/ and the plates fall
/
/ away from our knees,
/ let us not be…

End Matter - by Diana Hendry

{ Poem }

i. You’re at the postscript stage,* I read.
/ …

The going - by Gael Turnbull

{ Poem }

‘The going is harder’
/ he advised me
/ ‘as one gets older.’
/ I didn’t believe him.
/ After all, he was old
/ and the old are like…

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