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poems inspired by artworks

Consequential Egg - by Rob A. Mackenzie

{ Poem }

You prefer the murk of details to the vision complete,
/ incident to…

Dander round the loch with Henry Raeburn and James Hutton - by Alasdair Paterson

{ Poem }

Mother, I think / it’s come at last: / my skating minister vocation. …

A Quiet Life - by Anna Crowe

{ Poem }

in memory of my grandfather
/ (after Schubert’s piano sonata in C minor D958)
/
/
/ Hammer-blows ring on a hull in dry-dock
/ then dazzling sparks…

Havisham - by Carol Ann Duffy

{ Poem }

Beloved sweetheart bastard. Not a day since then
/ I haven’t wished him dead. Prayed for it
/ so hard I’ve dark green pebbles…

Assisi - by Norman MacCaig

{ Poem }

The dwarf with his hands on backwards
/ sat, slumped like a half-filled sack
/ on tiny twisted legs from which
/ sawdust might run,
/ outside the…

Thaim That Socht Eftir Me - by Ian McFadyen

{ Poem }

Thaim that socht eftir me noo flee awa,
/ Thaim that cam creepin barfit i the snaw.
/ Ah kent them gentil, meek an…

The Colourist - by Tom Hubbard

{ Poem }

It wis the licht he desired:
/ The mellin pinks o the stane,
/ At Cassis, that myndit him o Mull;
/ But here wis flesh…

The Place de L’Institut - by David Kinloch

{ Poem }

i.m. Anne Redpath
/
/ When I pause (I always do) the place
/ is placid – no reason to pause – its blandness
/ a principle…

Arabian Nights - by Nimah Ismail Nawwab

{ Poem }

When the call of the hudud,
/ Echoes through the palm fronds
/ Carrying in their mists,
/ Visions, memories:
/
/ Caravans of high spirited steads,
/ Crisscrossing the endless…

My Apologies - by Buland al-Haidari

{ Poem }

My apologies, my honoured guests,
/ The newsreader lied in his last bulletin:
/ There is no sea in Baghdad
/ Nor pearls
/ Not even an island,
/ And…

Up Loch Fyne - by Naomi Mitchison

{ Poem }

/ The humped grey fish-watcher has become with one wingflap
/ The elegant trailing heron that Hokusai dreamed up,
/ Far from Loch Fyne.
/ May my…

Seer - by Donald Smith

{ Poem }

for John Ruskin
/
/ “and through those eyes
/ now filled with dust,
/ the light of nature”
/
/ One
/
/ Pacing on the high walk
/ we catch…

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