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Moss - by Julian Colton

{ Poem }

I like moss. Patron saint of floral lost causesyou have to admire its persistencethe certain, resilient silencesuch blithe, unprepossessing paradox –utterly resolute, while so soft, so velvet. Survives, thrives in dim, damp places:up sides of crumbling housesdown slanted, slated, tiled roofs;the crack in the exposed wallshadowed lee beyond the garden gate.Invades repointed chimney breastcolonises the […]

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 }

Badge

a book of water - by Thomas A. Clark

{ Poem }

Handbound volume

Hoy Sound - by Heather H. Yeung

{ Poem }

Scroll

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…

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