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Best Scottish Poems 2015

Seivin Verses for GMB - by William Hershaw

{ Poem }

They are fermin the fower winds:
/ Five grey- stemmed daffodils
/ on the hill abuin Eynhallow
/ that whirlmagig air intil pouer.
/
/ Aa Simmerdim on Flotta…

SQRL - by William Bonar

{ Poem }

chats in squirrel are limited
/ to a sort of Roman salute
/ foreleg extended then folded
/ open paw on breast as if to say
/ Look…

Borders - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

That sound outside, near Sandyhills bridge,
/ along Barnhourie Burn, a high wild wailing
/ winding down to a long low growl of echo,
/ has…

Wedding Dress - by Stewart Sanderson

{ Poem }

A paper lantern on a balcony
/ in one of those old Edo evenings you
/ have read about, perhaps. Kabuki, tea
/ and blossom, wavering:…

Poem Inspired by a Gaelic Topography of Balquhidder Parish: Rev. Alex MacGregor, EUP 1886 - by Sheena Blackhall

{ Poem }

Field of the land producing thatch
/ Shieling of grinding wheat
/ Burn beside the dun coloured dell
/ Burn of the mournful bleat
/
/ Burn of the…

One Year the Door Will Open - by Ryan Van Winkle

{ Poem }

Door, I have knocked, pushed,
/ licked and, for a year, stroked
/ your veins smooth as varnish.
/ My knuckles are hard, black beetles.
/ We…

The First Kiss - by Russell Jones

{ Poem }

What a disappointment. Nothing like the movies,
/ nothing like the mind. A mass of muscles writhing,
/ an awkward hand on a tightened…

Near Linton Burnfoot - by Ron Butlin

{ Poem }

Tarred roads, metal cattle-grids and wheel tracks mesh
/ so tightly no land can escape. Tractor ruts
/ cut deep into the grass to…

A-rithist - by Pàdraig MacAoidh
Peter Mackay

{ Poem }

Bhithinn nam dhotair, bheirinn leigheas ’son do phian,
/ bhithinn nam thidsear, chuirinn faclan air do mhiann,
/ bhithinn nam bhràthair athair piuthar màthair…

CSI - by Lindsay Macgregor

{ Poem }

A dyke like her who’s been around the block
/ a bit has heard it all before. Volcano, somewhere
/ near the Tropics, unexpectedly…

Visiting the Animal - by Lesley Glaister

{ Poem }

I press my face against the glass
/ and there he is:
/ the recognition is complete
/ my way at least. The padded
/ luxury of his…

Blossom - by Kathleen Jamie

{ Poem }

There’s this life and no hereafter –
/ I’m sure of that
/ but still…

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