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Naming - by Gillian K. Ferguson

{ Poem }

___________ –
/
/ your name is the print
/ love has made in the world,
/
/ your body the growing home
/ your spirit has made upon…

The Beginning of a New Song - by Iain Crichton Smith

{ Poem }

Let her new river shine on a day
That is fresh and glittering and contemporary;

Let it be true to itself and to its origins
Inventive, original, philosophical

New Every Morning - by Susan Coolidge

{ Poem }

Every day is a fresh beginning;
Listen, my soul, to the glad refrain,
And, spite of old sorrow and older sinning,
And puzzles forecasted and possible pain,
Take heart with the day, and begin again.

The Darkling Thrush - by Thomas Hardy

{ Poem }

At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
Of joy illimited

When the Times Darken - by Bertolt Brecht

{ Poem }

When the times darken / will there be singing even then? / There will be singing even then. / Of…

Sala de Esperanza - by Lawrence Hergott, MD

{ Poem }

The sign on the hospital wall
/ identifying the space
/ begins with a Spanish phrase—
/ sala de espera,
/ waiting room.
/
/ A more symbolic phrase
/ may have deeper…

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…

Open the Door - by William Soutar

{ Poem }

Open the door for the auld year
/ It is the pairtin-time:
/ Open the door for the new year
/ And lat the bairn win…

The Morning After - by Christine De Luca

{ Poem }

It’s those unseen things that bind us, / not flag or battle-weary turf or tartan. / There are dragons to…

Scotland to Queensland, Glasgow to Gold Coast - by Liz Lochhead

{ Poem }

The good ship Friendship sails between Glasgow / And your far, your golden, coast. / May fierce friendship forever flourish…

Psalm Eighty-Eight Blues - by Diana Hendry

{ Poem }

Lord, when I’m speechless
/ when something – not just sorrow
/ but under that – a dull, numb, nameless dreich
/ about the heart I…

December Day - by Dorothy Margaret Paulin

{ Poem }

I ask no lovelier thing
/ Than this December silver:
/ See how the light flakes off the new-turned plough
/ Under the slow great swing
/ Of…

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