Care Hame - by
I gove sae lang at ae space –
whit else tae dae? –
I’m seein the white o ma ain een.
I gove sae lang at ae space –
whit else tae dae? –
I’m seein the white o ma ain een.
Chairs move by themselves, and books.
/ Grandchildren visit, stand
/ new and nameless, their faces’ puzzles
/ missing pieces. She’s like a fish
/
/ in deep ocean,…
When the worst thing happens,
/ That uproots the future,
/ That you must live for every hour of your future,
/
/ They come,
/ Unorganised, inarticulate, unprofessional;
/
/ They…
Love has been loitering
/ down this corridor
/ has been seen
/ chatting up out-patients
/ spinning the wheels of wheelchairs
/ fluttering the pulse of the night nurse
/ appearing,…
This is bad enough
/ So please …
/
/ Don’t give me
/ gobbledegook.
/
/ Don’t give me
/ pages and dense pages
/ and
/ “this leaflet aims to explain ……
Allah Dad and Hira Singh,
/ You and I fought for the King!
/ Hajal Moka, Suba Khan,
/ You stood with us, man to man…
After her stroke, hers was the first to go.
/ It sat for two years in their garage, though,
/ All through the months…
Three weeks: one field / a deluge / of births and deaths.
Oh wert thou in the cauld blast,
/ On yonder lea, on yonder lea;
/ My plaidie to the angry…
My warrior comes from France to-night
/ And I, so long disconsolate,
/ Once more the well-beloved of Fate,
/ With work-scarred hands go quick to…
Private D. Sutherland
/ killed in action in the German trench, May 16, 1916,
/ and the others who died
/
/ So you were David’s…
May the nourishment of the earth be yours,
may the clarity of light be yours,
may the fluency of the ocean be yours,
may the protection of the ancestors be yours.
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