In the Garden - by
i.m. my father
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/ While I was shawling the strawberries
/ with fine green netting, you told me
/ about the cow that swam to the…
islands
The Lake Isle of Innisfree - by
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
/ And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
/ Nine…
Westering Home - by
Chorus
/ Westering home, and a song in the air,
/ Light in the eye and it’s goodbye to care.
/ Laughter o’ love,…
The Isle of Jura - by
the sound & the silences
/ the lighthouse & the standing stone
/ the road & the moor
/ the fuschia & the hazel
/ the garden &…
the island in September - by
yellow sea-cabbage …
St Ninian’s Isle - by
Hit hed ta be a saint at strayed dis far nort
/ at cared aboot da sowls o Pictish fisherfock.
/ Foo da bairns…
Shiants - by
The basking islands. The rocks
/ like sails or fins or teeth.
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/ High wings are black blades
/ as the barnacle geese pass.
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/ The blue men…
Leodhas as t-Samhradh - by
An iarmailt cho soilleir tana
/ mar gum biodh am brat-sgàile air a reubadh
/ ‘s an Cruthadhear ‘na shuidhe am fianuis a shluaigh
/ aig…
Orkney / This Life - by
For Catherine and Jamie
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/ It is big sky and its changes,
/ the sea all round and the waters within.
/ It is the way…
Skye - by
Skye: I’m back again couldn’t resist your wide horizon smiles and the jewellery of your white
/ washed houses gummed to the…