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National Poetry Day 2006

Charlotte - by Charlotte

{ Poem }

C is like an egg cracked in half for a cake
/ H is like a ladder climbing up to a fire…

Grandmother - by Elizabeth Burns

{ Poem }

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 Robert Burns

{ Poem }

Is there for honest Poverty
/ That hings his head, an’ a’ that;
/ The coward-slave, we pass him by,
/ We dare be poor for…

A Glasgow nonsense rhyme for Molly - by Liz Lochhead

{ Poem }

Molly Pin Li McLaren,
/ come home and look
/ at the pictures in your brand-new book –
/ a tree, a bird, a fish, a…

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