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Lines On Observing A Blossom On The First Of February, 1796 - by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

{ Poem }

Sweet flower! that peeping from thy russet stem
Unfoldest timidly, (for in strange sort
This dark, frieze-coated, hoarse, teeth-chattering month
Hath borrowed Zephyr’s voice, and gazed upon thee
With blue voluptuous eye) alas poor flower!

The Twa Corbies - by Scottish anonymous

{ Poem }

As I was walking all alane,
I heard twa corbies making a mane;
The tane unto the t’other say,
‘Where sall we gang and dine to-day?’

Dead Loss - by Bridget Khursheed

{ Poem }

All the trees on the triangle of the shopping centre have been

cut down and then there was no building. Lockdown.

I care. I don’t care. I drive my car

Between Geology and Air - by Gerrie Fellows

{ Poem }

Earth pushes up
through our footsoles
air spins us
in its thinning spheres
time flies through us

The Art of Listening - by Veronica Aaronson

{ Poem }

Hunt out wild flowers,
reach out, not to pick them
but as an offer of intimacy.

glimpsed in passing - by Julie Johnstone

{ Poem }

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a book of water - by Thomas A. Clark

{ Poem }

Handbound volume

Hoy Sound - by Heather H. Yeung

{ Poem }

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excerpt from Farm by the Shore - by Thomas A. Clark

{ Poem }

small oats rye bere barley
ripe harvest in late summer
a shallow ploughing
grazing and fallow in rotation

A Birthday - by Edwin Muir

{ Poem }

I never felt so much
/ Since I have felt at all
/ The tingling smell and touch
/ Of dogrose and sweet briar,
/ Nettles against the…

Rose Hips and Thistles - by Marion McCready

{ Poem }

It’s been a long Indian summer / and the hips are rotting on the beach rose. / I can almost…

‘flowering gorse bush’ - by Thomas A. Clark

{ Poem }

as leaves have grown / back in branches / songs have come / among the leaves…

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