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Fishing With Norman MacCaig - by Norman Kreitman

{ Poem }

Each time I called for him he was perfectly ready,equipment checked and in smooth order,pared to essentials. And I, cluttered with gadgets,would clatter behind as he led the way downstairs. In the boat, as befits a sedulous angler,he was taciturn, though between essential wordshe would give that courteous, gentle smilethat was his signature, before his […]

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

{ Poem }

Even when just the other day
/ From Then to Now feels decades away.
/ The name at the back of the mind…
/ What…

The Soldier Mood - by William Kersley Holmes

{ Poem }

We were eating chip potatoes underneath the April stars
/ That glittered coldly and aloof from earth and earthly wars;
/ We were three…

Gone but Not Forgotten - by Maud Sulter

{ Poem }

On leaving
you playfully punched
my left
shoulder…

Laugharne Churchyard in 1954 - by Ruthven Todd

{ Poem }

Three thousand miles and nearly half a year
/ Away from a drab November afternoon, hysterics
/ Of friends forgotten, and also the plain…

It’s been - by Gael Turnbull

{ Poem }

It’s been a long time
all the time we’ve spent
and we’ve had such times

Women Friends - by Pauline Prior-Pitt

{ Poem }

wise women
welcome as sunshine
spreading delight

The Three - by Alan Jackson

{ Poem }

In the depth of winter
/ In the dark of night
/ There was only one house,
/ Only one light.
/
/ I walked down the…

Cemetery By the Sea - by Gordon Jarvie

{ Poem }

Remembering Tessa Ransford, 1938–2015
/
/
/ When Gavin circulated the news
/ I shed a tear or two that early autumn day.
/ What else…

Tik, Johnnie! - by Joseph Lee

{ Poem }

Allah Dad and Hira Singh,
/ You and I fought for the King!
/ Hajal Moka, Suba Khan,
/ You stood with us, man to man…

Two Horses Against A Hill (for Aonghas) - by Gerda Stevenson

{ Poem }

Two horses against a hill, / shoulder to shoulder, / one faces East, the other West, / and I think…

Consolation - by Robert Louis Stevenson

{ Poem }

Though he that ever kind and true
/ Kept stoutly step by step with you
/ Your whole long gusty lifetime through,
/ Be gone awhile…

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