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poems on postcards

Milk - by Donny O’Rourke

{ Poem }

Your custom often
/ when the house was still
/
/ to brew milky coffee
/ and reminisce.
/
/ Child care experts would have frowned
/ on my late hours,
/
/ The bitter…

from A hyakuin renga in summer - by Alec Finlay

{ Poem }

shrivelled little figs
/ that never made it
/ to the table
/
/ swirling a late cup of milky tea
/ what she’d like…

A Child’s Calendar of Feasts - by Christine De Luca

{ Poem }

September
/ Peel some hazelnuts while they’re still green. Our grapes can hang another day.
/
/ October
/ Take these walnuts next door. Tell them we…

The Picnic - by Edwin Morgan

{ Poem }

In a little rainy mist of white and grey
we sat under an old tree,
drank tea toasts to the powdery mountain,
undrunk got merry, played catch
with the empty flask

Grandpa’s Soup - by Jackie Kay

{ Poem }

No one makes soup like my Grandpa’s,
/ with its diced carrots the perfect size
/ and its diced potatoes the perfect size
/ and its…

Clone Machine - by Mary Blackadder

{ Poem }

What if we could make clones of ourselves?
/ You wouldn’t have to go to school
/ You could just send your clone
/ All you’d…

Pushing forty - by Alison Fell

{ Poem }

Just before winter
we see the trees show
their true colours:
the mad yellow of chestnuts
two maples like blood sisters
the orange beech
braver than lipstick

in hospital - by Tom Leonard

{ Poem }

I like seeing nurse frieda knitting
/ as I like watching my wife knitting
/ as I liked watching my mother knitting
/ though she was…

The Voyage - by James Robertson

{ Poem }

And if or when the people’s surge subsides
/ to tourist trickles from this present spate,
/ do not relax or quietly desiccate,
/ do not…

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…

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