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Sing like a linty - by Hamish MacDonald

{ Poem }

For these are the ones
Wha stand on the sidelines
Like hunters wi guns.

Killochyett - by Andrew Dodds

{ Poem }

Killochyett! … Killochyett! …
/ The dusk is drappin’ doon;
/ The waefu’ wind is whimp’rin’ in the trees;
/ The lichts begin tae blink aboot…

The Little Bird - by Anonymous

{ Poem }

One morning I got up
/ to pick oranges in the garden.
/ And I saw this.
/ I saw the rising sun
/ and the little bird
/ singing…

A Song for My Father - by Delores Gauntlett

{ Poem }

Against the yam-vine quiet of the garden / a nightingale stirred with my father: the lift / and fall of…

Intrusion - by Sydney Tremayne

{ Poem }

Seagulls sound like Bartok.
/ Lying awake all night
/ Beside the loch
/ I hear them crying, crying
/ I am, I am, I am,
/ All ignorant…

The Comin’ o’ the Spring - by Lady John Scott

{ Poem }

There’s no a muir in my ain land but’s fu’ o’ sang the day,
/ Wi’ the whaup, and the gowden plover,…

Rooks - by Charles Hamilton Sorley

{ Poem }

There, where the rusty iron lies,
/ The rooks are cawing all the day.
/ Perhaps no man, until…

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