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A Runnable Stag - by John Davidson

{ Poem }

When the pods went pop on the broom, green broom,And apples began to be golden-skinn’d,We harbour’d a stag in the Priory coomb,And we feather’d his trail up-wind, up-wind,We feather’d his trail up-wind—A stag of warrant, a stag, a stag,A runnable stag, a kingly crop,Brow, bay and tray and three on top,A stag, a runnable stag. […]

Bereavement Counselling from Murdoch of Blackbyres - by Jim Carruth

{ Poem }

Listen, back in ‘74
I shot a crow with such force
its body cannoned into its partner,
dropped the pair from the sky.

Old Christmastide - by Sir Walter Scott

{ Poem }

Heap on more wood! the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
Each age has deem’d the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer

Lady’s-Slipper Orchid - by Andrew Young

{ Poem }

Though I know well enough
/ To hunt the Lady’s Slipper now
/ Is playing blindman’s-buff,
/ For it was June She put it on
/ And grey…

A Tray of Frozen Songbirds - by Pascale Petit

{ Poem }

For our last meal together / my father takes out of the freezer / a tray of frozen songbirds.

Cat in the Apple Tree - by Diana Hendry

{ Poem }

When, for the umpteenth time he’s outflitted
/ within paw’s reach of the taunting bird, heart
/ goes out to him – his folly,…

Hyena - by Edwin Morgan

{ Poem }

I am waiting for you.
/ I have been travelling all morning through the bush
/ and not eaten.
/ I am lying at the edge…

im delikatessenladen - by Ernst Jandl

{ Poem }

bitte geben sie mir eine maiwiesenkonserve etwas höher gelegen aber nicht zu
/ abschüssig so, daß man darauf noch sitzen kann.
/
/ nun,…

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…

The Tenant - by Hilton Brown

{ Poem }

The Tenant’s gane, the Lodge is shut;
/ Nae mair, until the Twalth return,
/ We’ll see him threshin’ at the burn
/ Or sittin’ shiverin’…

Hard Men - by Crìsdean MacIlleBhàin
Christopher Whyte

{ Poem }

Is and sin tangatar cruiti Cainbile o Es Ruaid dia n-airfidedh.
/ Indar leo-sam ba do taisceladh forra ó Ulltaib tangatar,…

A wolf in the park - by Richard Edwards

{ Poem }

Is there a wolf,
/ A wolf in the park,
/ A wolf who wakes when the night gets dark?
/ Is there a wolf in…

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