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Hello, I am Scotland - by Michael Pedersen

{ Poem }

Who wakes every morning
/ in a brilliant mood as auburn bursts
/ cast filigree nets over foreheads
/ and swingparks and paint themselves
/ on pavements.

The Comfort of the Hills - by Will H. Ogilvie

{ Poem }

HEART! If you’ve a sorrow
/ Take it to the hills!
/ Lay it where the sunshine
/ …

A Cairn - by Gael Turnbull

{ Poem }

As by barren trackway
/ on a mountain crest
/ with view of scree and corrie,
/ ridge and col,
/ a traveller might pause,
/ take bearings, cast
/ in…

A Man In Assynt (extract) - by Norman MacCaig

{ Poem }

Glaciers, grinding West, gouged out
/ these valleys, rasping the brown sandstone,
/ and left, on the hard rock below –
/ the ruffled…

Ceann Loch Aoineart - by Somhairle MacGill-Eain
Sorley MacLean

{ Poem }

Còmhlan bheanntan, stòiteachd bheanntan,
/ còrr-lios bheanntan fàsmhor,
/ cruinneachadh mhullaichean, thulaichean, shlèibhtean
/ tighinn sa bheucaich ghàbhaidh.
/
/ Èirigh ghleanntan, choireachan ùdlaidh,
/ laighe sa bhùirich chràcaich;
/ sìneadh chluaineagan, shuaineagan…

Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain (extract) - by Duncan Ban MacIntyre

{ Poem }

4. Siubhal
/
/ A’ bheinn luiseanach fhailleanach
/ Mheallanach lìontach,
/ Gun choimeas dh’ a fallaing
/ Air thalamh na Crìosdachd:
/
/ ‘S ro-neònach tha mise,…

Summit of Corrie Etchachan - by Nan Shepherd

{ Poem }

But in the climbing ecstasy of thought,
/ Ere consummation, ere the final peak,
/ Come hours like this. Behind, the long defile,
/ The steep…

The Hill Burns - by Nan Shepherd

{ Poem }

So without sediment
/ Run the clear burns of my country,
/ Fiercely pure,
/ Transparent as light
/ Gathered into its own unity,
/ Lucent and without colour;
/ Or green,
/ Like…

on sooth kip - by Aonghas MacNeacail

{ Poem }

frae this heich haugh
/ see yon wee howe
/ whaur caller watters rin,
/ aa skinklin threids…

It’s a Mineral, the Mind - by Mohan Koirãlã

{ Poem }

Velvet the Himalayan poinsettia in bloom,
/ silver the scabbard of thrusting power,
/ the mind is a clear scent,
/ the pen is a new…

Lost - by Hamid Shami

{ Poem }

To quote my distant friend Imran MacLeod,
/ ‘A man with no culture has no identity.’
/
/ The last I heard of him was,…

Leabaidh Dhiarmaid is Gràinne - by Rody Gorman

{ Poem }

Fon chàrn, ghabh iad air falbh
/ gus an tug iad a-mach cliathach Beinn Ghulbain
/ ri marbh na h-oidhche.
/
/ Rinn iad iad fhèin a…

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