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The going - by Gael Turnbull

{ Poem }

‘The going is harder’
/ he advised me
/ ‘as one gets older.’
/ I didn’t believe him.
/ After all, he was old
/ and the old are like…

Progress - by Douglas Dunn

{ Poem }

There they are, widows of the professoriate
/ Tied to their frail routines, but not unfree
/ Wheeling their shopping zimmers on Market Street;
/ And…

from Finis Exoptatus - by Adam Lindsay Gordon

{ Poem }

Life is mostly froth and bubble,
/ Two things stand like stone,
/ Kindness in another’s trouble,
/ Courage in your own.
/ …

Be the first to like this - by Theresa Muñoz

{ Poem }

kicking pine cones down the street
/ climbing the backyard cherry tree
/ lying in new sheets
/ waking in darkness waking to snow
/ how…

Parachute men say . . . - by Lenrie Peters

{ Poem }

Parachute men say
/ The first jump
/ Takes the breath away
/ Feet in the air disturb
/ Till you get used to it.
/
/ Solid ground
/ Is not where…

Scotland - by Hugh MacDiarmid

{ Poem }

It requires great love of it deeply to read
The configuration of a land,
Gradually grow conscious of fine shadings,
Of great meanings in slight symbols…

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