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When Grey Shapes Slip the Shadows - by Ian A. Olson

{ Poem }

When grey shapes slip the shadows of the morning
/ My small birds sit in silence in the eaves
/ But daylight brings indifferent…

The Way - by Edwin Muir

{ Poem }

Friend, I have lost the way.
/ The way leads on.
/ Is there another way?
/ The way is one.
/ I must retrace the track.
/ It’s lost…

Last Lauch - by Douglas Young

{ Poem }

The Minister said it wad dee,
/ the cypress buss I plantit.
/ But the buss grew…

Avoiding the gods - by Ian Abbot

{ Poem }

They have come
/ to scald our blood, to call us out
/ from our bright houses to the twisted shadows under trees.
/ Let us…

The Zenith - by Hamish Mann

{ Poem }

To-day I reach the zenith of my life,
/ No time more noble in my span of years
/ Than this, the glorious…

The Messengers - by Muriel Spark

{ Poem }

Arriving late sometimes and never
/ Quite expected, still they come,
/ Bringing a folded meaning home
/ Between the lines, inside the letter.
/
/ As a scarecrow…

Prelude - by Jorge Barbosa

{ Poem }

When the explorer landed on the first island
/ no innocent, fearful or naked
/ men and women
/ peered from behind the vegetation
/
/ neither poisoned arrows…

Trouble is not my middle name - by Liz Lochhead

{ Poem }

Trouble is not my middle name.
/ It is not what I am.
/ I was not born for this.
/ Trouble is not a place
/ though…

Invictus - by William Ernest Henley

{ Poem }

Out of the night that covers me,
/ Black as the pit from pole to pole,
/ I thank whatever gods may be
/ For my…

Horace, Ode XI. Lib. I - by Robert Fergusson

{ Poem }

Ne’er fash your thumb what gods decree
/ To be the weird o’ you or me,
/ Nor deal in cantrip’s kittle cunning
/ To spier…

Between the Penny Dropping and the Penny Landing - by Roddy Lumsden

{ Poem }

While the penny spins,
pale beams catch on a lost key in a nest,
roll over roofs and drop into the alley,
and we are shadows in that alley.

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