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poems on postcards

Poor Poetry - by Thomas A. Clark

{ Poem }

Multiform work

Icarus poem - by Heather H. Yeung

{ Poem }

Twin postcards

Sea Poppy 2 - by Ian Hamilton Finlay

{ Poem }

A concrete poem made from the names of boats.

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star - by Anonymous

{ Poem }

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
/ How I wonder what you are.
/ Up above the world so high,
/ Like a diamond in the sky.
/
/ When the…

Towards the Stars - by Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn
Iain Crichton Smith

{ Poem }

They slept as they set off for the stars
/ in their refrigerated beds.
/
/ They slept as they passed the planets
/ and headed for…

Stars and Planets - by Norman MacCaig

{ Poem }

It’s hard to think that the earth is one –
This poor sad bearer of wars and disasters
Rolls-Roycing round the sun with its load of gangsters,
Attended only by the loveless moon.

Màthair - by Meg Bateman

{ Poem }

O gun lasainn de dh’aighear annad
na leigeadh leam d’fhaicinn gu slàn,
no chan fhaide thu bhuam nuair a shiùbhlas tu
nab ha thu rim thaobh a-nochd.

Escape at Bedtime - by Robert Louis Stevenson

{ Poem }

The lights from the parlour and kitchen shone out
/ Through the blinds and the windows and bars;
/ And high overhead and all…

Breakfast at Tiffany’s - by Tracey Herd

{ Poem }

Holly Golightly haunts the streets of New York.
Look into the distance. The girl is gone,
and each diamond is simply a star in the dark

Streams - by Diana Hendry

{ Poem }

When we went to the grammar school
/ the teacher said,
/ ‘You A-stream girls
/ will go out in the world
/ and be doctors and lawyers.
/ You…

Guid Taste - by Scottish anonymous

{ Poem }

Tae get your juices gaun we’ve
/ the brawest Indian food fur ye.
/ Goan specialities
/ caller oot o Scotland’s seas.
/ King prawns hottered wi…

Blaeberry Mou - by William Soutar

{ Poem }

The flitterin faces come doun the brae
/ And the baskets gowd and green;
/ And nane but a blindie wud speer the day
/ Whaur…

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