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everyday life

Winter-Time - by Robert Louis Stevenson

{ Poem }

Late lies the wintry sun a-bed,
A frosty, fiery sleepy-head;
Blinks but an hour or two; and then,
A blood-red orange, sets again.

exercise - by Julie Johnstone

{ Poem }

Folded card work

Life - by Julie Johnstone

{ Poem }

Handbound volume

Discharged - by David Mackie

{ Poem }

When the fighting days are over,    And we’re finished with the fray,When they draft us back to Dover    To be put on pension pay;You may think we’ll be in clover    But remember this, my son,When the fighting days are over,    Then our fight has just begun. It is hard, there’s no […]

Winter Twilight in West Lothian - by Isobel Wylie Hutchison

{ Poem }

The sun’s going down behind the great shale-heap
/ Over against the village; shadows creep
/ Shifting from door to door, and all the…

Bright - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

You’re building another Christmas for one, /decorating the present with sparkly / lights & glitter, a long line of cards…

Almorness - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

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

Breenge - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

This morning, as the 372 shoogled
/ through Carsethorn, hirpled
/ wabbit past the kirk and through
/ dreich smirr hoyed down from
/ droukit braes above,…

Listening to Bach’s B Minor Mass in the kitchen - by Elizabeth Burns

{ Poem }

Finally, I’m done with the phone calls and everything else
/ and when I switch on the radio it feels like lying…

The Forfar Bus - by J. B. Salmond

{ Poem }

On the Forfar ‘bus in a morn of spring,
/ A nipping wind and the frost’s sharp sting;
/ And I can’t tell why,…

Watching Telly With You - by Diana Hendry

{ Poem }

We could go to Paris of course
/ but not so often. And it might not be quite
/ as cosy as…

A Memory - by Hamish Mann

{ Poem }

Red roofs peeping through the stately trees,
/ A distant spire; smoke floating on the breeze;
/ The whir of aeroplanes high overhead;
/ Brown cows,…

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