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Rose Hips and Thistles - by Marion McCready

{ Poem }

It’s been a long Indian summer / and the hips are rotting on the beach rose. / I can almost…

Autumn Compensations - by Helen Cruickshank

{ Poem }

Books in cosy littered room ,
Feet in slippered ease,
Silver candles in the gloom,
Stars in naked trees

Inna Calabash - by Lorna Goodison

{ Poem }

Inna calabash
tell them that the baby
that count in them census already
Inna calabash

Blossom - by Kathleen Jamie

{ Poem }

There’s this life and no hereafter –
/ I’m sure of that
/ but still…

The Larder - by Vicki Feaver

{ Poem }

Turned seventy, and not wanting
/ to waste the years left, half-asleep,
/ I’m stocking the shelves of a larder.
/
/ Each day is an empty…

The Song of Wandering Aengus - by William Butler Yeats

{ Poem }

I went out to the hazel wood, / Because a fire was in my head, / And cut and peeled…

Street Market - by Jean Guthrie-Smith

{ Poem }

Here, under the awning of cotton,
/ Tomatoes are heaped in a flare
/ Of glossy red beauty, and rotten
/ Sick-sweet smells of fruit fill…

Trees - by Sue Butler

{ Poem }

You hold the sapling straight, backfill,
/ heel it in. A rainbow
/ pours from the watering can.

For Bet Gaitherin Strawberries - by Alastair Mackie

{ Poem }

The rain was sliverin on the windae pane
/ when you gaed oot tae pick strawberries,
/ reid pockit moons, for the denner…

Flying-Fox - by Albert Wendt

{ Poem }

More rat than bird,
/ more superstition than fox,
/ you hang from that banyan
/ branch like a deflated black
/ umbrella and, when you flap
/ through the…

French Horn - by Jane Hirshfield

{ Poem }

For a few days only,
/ the plum tree outside the window
/ shoulders perfection.
/ No matter the plums will be small,
/ eaten only by squirrels…

Selling Watermelons - by Andrei Voznesensky

{ Poem }

Moscow is milling with watermelons.
/ Everything breathes a boundless freedom.
/ And it blows with unbridled fierceness
/ from the breathless melonvendors.
/
/ Stalls. Din. Girls’ headscarves.
/ They…

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