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falling in love

A Woman in the Street - by James Pittendrigh Macgillivray

{ Poem }

O bonnie lad wi’ the kilt sae braw
An’ tossel’t sporran swingin’ –
Wi’ dirk at the hip, an’ ribbons rid;
Ye set my hert a-singin’.

Poem for a Hospital Wall - by Diana Hendry

{ Poem }

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,…

The First Kiss - by Russell Jones

{ Poem }

What a disappointment. Nothing like the movies,
/ nothing like the mind. A mass of muscles writhing,
/ an awkward hand on a tightened…

First Love - by Diana Hendry

{ Poem }

They say I should not wait about your street,
/ nor call upon your friends to hear of you,
/ or go to places…

The Cotter’s Saturday Night - by Robert Burns

{ Poem }

O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! / For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent, / Long may…

The Hazel Trees - by Hadewijch of Antwerp

{ Poem }

In the beginning Love satisfies us.
/ When Love first spoke to me of love –
/ How I laughed at her in return!…

The Brooch - by Mririda n’Ait Attik

{ Poem }

Grandmother, grandmother,
/ Since he left I think only of him
/ And I see him everywhere
/ He gave me a fine silver brooch
/ And when…

Manuscript in a Bottle - by Pablo Antonio Cuadra

{ Poem }

I had seen coconut trees and tamarinds
/ and mangos
/ the white sails drying in the sun
/ the smoke of breakfast across the sky
/ at…

French Horn - by Jane Hirshfield

{ Poem }

For a few days only,
/ the plum tree outside the window
/ shoulders perfection.
/ No matter the plums will be small,
/ eaten only by squirrels…

Love is like a dizziness - by James Hogg

{ Poem }

O, love, love, love!
Love is like a dizziness;
It winna let a puir body
Gang about his biziness!

The Owl and the Pussy-cat - by Edward Lear

{ Poem }

The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
/ In a beautiful pea-green boat,
/ They took some honey, and plenty…

Solway - by Elizabeth Burns

{ Poem }

Love unfolded then, like crumpled petals
/ opening into sunlight,
/ unfurling at the stroke of spring
/
/ as we walked the seven miles of estuary,
/ reaching,…

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