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loneliness

Sonnet - by Veronica Forrest-Thomson

{ Poem }

My love, if I write a song for youTo that extent you are goneFor, as everyone says, and I know it’s true:We are all always alone. Never so separate trying to be twoAnd the busy old fool is right.To try and finger myself from youDistinguishes day from night. If I say “I love you” we […]

The Outcast - by John Davidson

{ Poem }

And from above
One curse be hurled
With scorn, with love
Affront the world…

‘How I pine…’ - by Tom Leonard

{ Poem }

How I pine for a hawdy,
/ yir really beautiful body,
/ ahm right besotten,
/ ah fancy yi rotten;
/ let’s huvva tet-a-tet
/ – stoap playn…

To the Moon - by Percy Bysshe Shelley

{ Poem }

Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth?

Left Behind - by Ian A. Olson

{ Poem }

I cannot bring myself to burst your everywhere balloons
/ That cheer our rooms, mementos of delight,
/ Nor bundle bears, deep buried in…

In Retirement - by Elma Mitchell

{ Poem }

Widowed of my own image
/ That shone from fellow faces
/ I watch from envious window
/ The men whose energies at morning…

Thonder they ligg - by Douglas Young

{ Poem }

Frae the Gaelic o George Campbell Hay
/
/ “Thonder they ligg on the grund o the sea,
/ nae the hyne whaur they…

Left Her Lane - by J. E. Stewart

{ Poem }

Aiblins she thocht he’d hap her doon
/ In the old kirk-yaird ayont the toon
/ Whaur the kirkspire shadows his faither’s stane…

Thrawn Kate - by William Hutcheson

{ Poem }

We gaed thegither through the rye
/ As gloaming dusked the dell,
/ He clamb the dyke, I wadna try,
/ And sae I said farewell.
/ I…

Blessing - by Angus Dunn

{ Poem }

There is a god who tends / the empty corners of public places / the spaces where no one goes…

Curmudgeon - by Douglas Dunn

{ Poem }

He is a man for whom everyone’s a trespasser.
/ Co-existence? He doesn’t believe in it.
/ Give you the time of day? Not…

‘By lone St. Mary’s silent lake’ - by Sir Walter Scott

{ Poem }

By lone St. Mary’s silent lake:
/ Thou know’st it well,—nor fen nor sedge
/ Pollute the pure lake’s crystal edge;
/ Abrupt and sheer, the…

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