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Grampians

Highland Shooting Lodge - by Maurice Lindsay

{ Poem }

Crouched up beneath a crowd of Grampian hills,
/ this old house waits to hear the report of guns
/ crisping the Autumn…

Yellow Road to The Deep North - by Morelle Smith

{ Poem }

after Basho, the Japanese poet
/
/ Sand – stretched in sun –
/ the shore. This light
/ lies sideways over the
/ yellow grass, over the blue
/ winter…

The Catch - by Maureen Sangster

{ Poem }

By the Bogie watter
/ Bee bee boo boo baba
/ by the Bogie Watter
/ Bee bee boo boo babala
/
/ A cat hunkit on a tree…

Schiehallion - by David Purves

{ Poem }

Nae suiner haed A wun the tap
/ the mount nor A kent ma hert haed dwyned.
/ An doun ablo was aw Scotland,
/ a…

Station Cottages, Portlethen - by W. S. Milne

{ Poem }

for ma sister
/
/ The auld psalms, Frances, mind,
/ at the brae’s fit, aneth roddin,
/ wicht roses, the shuggly haathorn –
/
/ the kirk wi its…

Wolves - by Douglas Lipton

{ Poem }

for the new Scottish Parliament
/
/ The icy rain is spitting
/ on the pines and golden birches.
/ Hangings of black cloud
/ are torn apart by…

Rychraggan - by Duncan Glen

{ Poem }

For Duncan Munro & Mary McNab
/
/ We are going through Glen Urquhart
/ out of our eyes in our enlightened minds
/ by Milton and…

Erasing the Tape - by Gerrie Fellows

{ Poem }

Aviemore: she thinks she knows the place keeps
/ driving past the car park pizza joint brute hotel
/ keeps driving past her own…

One Hand Clapping - by Stuart B. Campbell

{ Poem }

Ice Diamonds spumed clouds from Dhalugiri’s summit.
/ Eighteen thousand feet below,
/ In sand-storm heat, between sandstone heights,
/ Among rounded pebbles, I found a…

Glen Muick - by Sheena Blackhall

{ Poem }

The skies drift doon – a dreepin blur
/ That maks o ben an brae a shroud;
/ As if grown weary o the…

Spring in Cromar - by Sheena Blackhall

{ Poem }

for the folk of Tarland, Coull and Migvie
/
/ Spring in Cromar is an open yett,
/ Wi the heich rigs turned an black,
/ For…

Braes o Skene - by Sheena Blackhall

{ Poem }

Tune: Plooman Laddies
/
/ Fan first I cam tae the Braes o Skene,
/ The corn parks they stood thick an green.
/
/ Chorus: Noo ferm…

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