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Whilst Leila Sleeps - by Jackie Kay

{ Poem }

I am moving in the dead of night, packing things, turning out lights. My fingers tie knots like fish nets. I want to be in my mother’s house but she is all the way over the other side of the world. Boxes; I can’t see out of the back window. Leila is a bundle in […]

Remembering Friends Who Feared Old Age and Dementia More than Death - by Douglas Dunn

{ Poem }

No one
Looks forward to being old and alone,
The carer with a spoon,
Visitor gone

In Memoriam 1971 - by Joan Ure

{ Poem }

Certain women. And some young boys.
/ Women with some uncertainties
/ but something they knew about
/ that made them need to say something.
/ Two of…

The night is darkening round me - by Emily Bronte

{ Poem }

The night is darkening round me,
/ The wild winds coldly blow;
/ But a tyrant spell has bound me,
/ And I cannot, cannot go.
/
/ The…

Dulce Et Decorum Est - by Wilfred Owen

{ Poem }

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest / To children ardent for some desperate glory, / The…

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…

As Time Draws Near - by Iain Crichton Smith

{ Poem }

As time draws near
/ the end of our days
/ and the plates fall
/
/ away from our knees,
/ let us not be…

Now Where? - by Jane Kenyon

{ Poem }

It wakes when I wake, walks
/ when I walk, turns back when I
/ turn back, beating me to the door.
/
/ It spoils my…

The Peace of Wild Things - by Wendell Berry

{ Poem }

When despair for the world grows in me
/ and I wake in the night at the least sound
/ in fear of what…

Borders - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

That sound outside, near Sandyhills bridge,
/ along Barnhourie Burn, a high wild wailing
/ winding down to a long low growl of echo,
/ has…

This Is Bad Enough - by Elspeth Murray

{ Poem }

This is bad enough
/ So please …
/
/ Don’t give me
/ gobbledegook.
/
/ Don’t give me
/ pages and dense pages
/ and
/ “this leaflet aims to explain ……

The Privacy of Typewriters - by Les Murray

{ Poem }

I am an old book troglodyte
one who composes on paper
and types up the result
as many times as need be.

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