The Neep-Fields By the Sea - by
Ye’d wonder foo the seasons rin
/ This side o’ Tweed an’ Tyne;
/ The hairst’s awa’; October-month
/ Cam in a whilie syne,
/ But the stooks…
fields
Before Action - by
Over the down the road goes winding,
/ A ribbon of white in the corn –
/ The green,…
Poem Inspired by a Gaelic Topography of Balquhidder Parish: Rev. Alex MacGregor, EUP 1886 - by
Field of the land producing thatch
/ Shieling of grinding wheat
/ Burn beside the dun coloured dell
/ Burn of the mournful bleat
/
/ Burn of the…
Near Linton Burnfoot - by
Tarred roads, metal cattle-grids and wheel tracks mesh
/ so tightly no land can escape. Tractor ruts
/ cut deep into the grass to…
from Memorial - by
The first to die was PROTESILAUS / A focused man who hurried to darkness / With forty black ships leaving…