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Wild Geese Across The Moon - by Muriel Stuart

{ Poem }

Reeds, snake-like, coiled in the mistWhere the low fog drives:The muddy cough of the stream that strivesTo free its throat from the clot of reed,As they fight it out the water and the weed⁠—While the fog, above, takes turn and twist:Men, these are your lives! Wild Geese across the moon:As some hand that unrollsAnd scratches […]

Still - by Eleanor Livingstone

{ Poem }

Not crow, eyes calculating
/ my speed, the distance, his time
/
/ not blackbird or thrush
/ in a startled trajectory of flight
/
/ not pigeon, undecided…

Gavia Stellata - by Alexander Hutchison

{ Poem }

Who calls to the dark, / who calls to the wind on / the surface of the water?…

An Irish Airman Foresees His Death - by W.B. Yeats

{ Poem }

I know that I shall meet my fate
/ Somewhere among the clouds above;
/ Those that I…

The Wild Swans at Coole - by W.B. Yeats

{ Poem }

The trees are in their autumn beauty,
/ The woodland paths are dry,
/ Under the October twilight the water …

Free as a Bird - by Elizabeth Kaufman-Buchel

{ Poem }

Unattached
/ With no roots
/ With no barrier
/
/ Free as a bird
/ I want to be
/
/ Despite the fears of freedom
/ Despite the vulnerability of the unattached
/ Despite…

Captain Puggle - by Matthew Fitt

{ Poem }

Captain Puggle flees his plane
/ Frae Tumshie Airport tae Bahrain
/ Gets the Smiths and their wee wean
/ Brings them aw back hame again.
/
/ Captain…

Augury - by Caitríona O’Reilly

{ Poem }

Magnetic winds from the sun pour in
/ and send our instruments akimbo.
/ Nothing runs like clockwork now.
/ As skeletal clouds unwreathe our exposure,
/ panicky…

Landscape with Flying Man - by John Glenday

{ Poem }

I read about him that was given wings.
/ His father fixed those wings to carry him away.
/
/ They carried him halfway home,…

Existential paraglidin in Turkey - by Christine De Luca

{ Poem }

Tinkin on da haert’s topography
/ – heichts wir climmed, jimpit aff a,
/ aa but miracklin wirsels,
/ brinks o banks wir teetered apön –
/ wir…

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