Sweet Pea - by
I don’t know why we called you Sweet Pea, / probably because having you was sweet /and you were about the size of a pea.
loss
Love’s Last Suit
Love, forget me when I’m gone,When the tree is overthrown,Let its place be digg’d and sownO’er with grass ;—when that is grown,The very place shall be unknown,So court I oblivion.So I charge thee, by our love,Love, forget me when I’m gone. Love of him that lies in clayOnly maketh life forlorn—Clouding o’er the new-born dayWith […]
I Lost my Shoes on Rachel Street - by
I lost my shoes on Rachel St.
/ Head lolled back to rest
/ against a pillow of the Mont
/ kiss the foot of the…
Strathconon - by
When you took the autumn to London
/ And left me to burrow into winter
/ I said they could pack up Strathconon
/ Box up…
Here it is the boundary with its unfindable sadnesses - by
Here it is the boundary with its unfindable /sadnesses…
from Three Battles - by
In the cold of the morning, / In the burning of the day, / The thin lines stumbled forward, /…
Before Action - by
Over the down the road goes winding,
/ A ribbon of white in the corn –
/ The green,…
Loss - by
Emerging from the kirk
/ with my family
/ into a howling wind,
/ someone observed
/ my tear-stained cheek
/ and asked me
/ what was on my…
German Prisoners - by
When first I saw you in the curious street,
/ Like some platoon of soldier ghosts in grey,
/ My mad impulse was…
Blessing - by
There is a god who tends / the empty corners of public places / the spaces where no one goes…
‘When the Vision dies…’ - by
When the Vision dies in the dust of the market place,
/ When the Light is dim,
/ When you lift up your eyes…
Women Demobilised - by
July 1919
/
/ Now we must go back again to the world
/ Full of grey ghosts and voices of men dying,
/ And in the…