Charlotte - by
C is like an egg cracked in half for a cake
/ H is like a ladder climbing up to a fire…
National Poetry Day 2006
Grandmother - by
carries the guid Scots tongue in her heid
/ all the way to London
/
/ where it becomes like the kitchen china
/ worn and cracked…
A Man’s a Man for a’ That - by
Is there for honest Poverty
/ That hings his head, an’ a’ that;
/ The coward-slave, we pass him by,
/ We dare be poor for…
Port nan Carbad-iarainn - by
Dithis
/ Charbad-iarainn
/ Ri taobh a chèile
/ ’S iad an impis dèanamh às
/ Anns an dorchadas
/ Agus mi fhìn a’ sealltainn
/ Air an taobh thall
/ ’S mi an…
Lost - by
To quote my distant friend Imran MacLeod,
/ ‘A man with no culture has no identity.’
/
/ The last I heard of him was,…
A Glasgow nonsense rhyme for Molly - by
Molly Pin Li McLaren,
/ come home and look
/ at the pictures in your brand-new book –
/ a tree, a bird, a fish, a…