Old Age Blues - by
I don’t know what I used to know.
/ I don’t say that it isn’t so,
/ I’ve just forgotten. That’s a blow.
/ When you…
change
from ‘a better tale to tell’ - by
politicians must become / better messengers / with a better tale / to tell…
Pstryk - by
Sterczy w ścianie taki pstryczek,
/ Mały pstryczek-elektryczek,
/ Jak tym pstryczkiem zrobić pstryk,
/ To się widno robi w mig.
/
/ Bardzo łatwo:
/ Pstryk – i światło!
/ Pstryknąć potem…
Open the Door - by
Open the door for the auld year
/ It is the pairtin-time:
/ Open the door for the new year
/ And lat the bairn win…
Anither season - by
In memory of Alec “Spangles” Hunter (1936 – 1995)
/
/ When they found Marciano’s body
/ strapped in the crashed plane seat,
/ someone said…
Lines for a Bookmark - by
You who read…
/ May you seek
/ As you look;
/ May you keep
/ What you need;
/ May you care
/ What you choose;
/ And know here
/ In this book
/ Something strange,
/ Something…
Sorting Through - by
the sadness of dispossessed dresses,
/ the decency of good coats roundshouldered
/ in the darkness of wardrobes,
/ the gravitas of lapels,
/ the invisible danders of…
Consequential Egg - by
You prefer the murk of details to the vision complete,
/ incident to…
Culbin Sands - by
Here lay a fair fat land;
/ But now its townships, kirks, graveyards
/ Beneath bald hills of sand
/ …
The Ash Grove - by
a springtime ash, whose leaves emerge from black
/ an unlocked ash, so profligate with keys…
Air sràidean Ghlaschu: 17 - by
’Nam shuidh’ anns a’ chafe,
/ is dithis chaileag air taobh eile a’ bhùird,
/ dh’fhairich mi teas nan deur
/ air chùl mo rasgan;
/ cha b…
Largo - by
Ae boat anerlie nou
/ Fishes frae this shore,
/ Ae black drifter lane
/ Riggs the crammasie daw,
/ Aince was a fleet, and nou
/ Ae boat alane…