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landscape

Bright Coast - by Martin Malone

{ Poem }

drawn line of horizon

stretched across a bay

the gods died making

Winter-Time - by Robert Louis Stevenson

{ Poem }

Late lies the wintry sun a-bed,
A frosty, fiery sleepy-head;
Blinks but an hour or two; and then,
A blood-red orange, sets again.

point of view - by Julie Johnstone

{ Poem }

Folded card work

Hoy Sound - by Heather H. Yeung

{ Poem }

Artist’s publication

Hoy Sound - by Heather H. Yeung

{ Poem }

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The Land We Love - by Will H. Ogilvie

{ Poem }

Just a line of blue hills to remember:
/ Just a valley one fails to forget,
/ Whether bound with…

Killochyett - by Andrew Dodds

{ Poem }

Killochyett! … Killochyett! …
/ The dusk is drappin’ doon;
/ The waefu’ wind is whimp’rin’ in the trees;
/ The lichts begin tae blink aboot…

A Memory - by Hamish Mann

{ Poem }

Red roofs peeping through the stately trees,
/ A distant spire; smoke floating on the breeze;
/ The whir of aeroplanes high overhead;
/ Brown cows,…

Loch Coimpiutair: Dàn Gaoil - by Meg Bateman

{ Poem }

Loch an Iomair’s my treasure, cradled in sphagnum /high in the hills between arms of rock / with lobelia pricking…

Near Linton Burnfoot - by Ron Butlin

{ Poem }

Tarred roads, metal cattle-grids and wheel tracks mesh
/ so tightly no land can escape. Tractor ruts
/ cut deep into the grass to…

L’Infinito - by Giacomo Leopardi

{ Poem }

Sempre caro mi fu quest’ermo colle,
/ e questa siepe, che da tanta parte
/ dell’ultimo orizzonte il guardo esclude.
/ Ma sedendo…

Sphagnum Moss - by Donald S. Murray

{ Poem }

Sphagnum moss remembers. It recalls
/ the touchdown of each lark that tumbles
/ down upon its surface, the slightness of that weight
/ recorded…

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