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The Way - by Edwin Muir

{ Poem }

Friend, I have lost the way.
/ The way leads on.
/ Is there another way?
/ The way is one.
/ I must retrace the track.
/ It’s lost…

Enquiry Desk - by Andy Jackson

{ Poem }

Do you have the one
/ with that poem they read at the funeral
/ in that movie?…

Physics for the unwary student - by Pippa Goldschmidt

{ Poem }

Imagine that you are trying to balance on the surface of an expanding balloon.

Pilgrimage: Being the thoughts of an ex-soldier at Ypres, 8/8/28 - by J. B. Salmond

{ Poem }

Me, an’ Jean, an’ the bairn;
/ The wee lad spierin’ an’ starin’;
/ Daunderin’ quiet an’ douce-like doun
/ The Menin road into Ypres toun.
/ ‘Did…

Timor mortis conturbat me - by Diana Hendry

{ Poem }

Will it give me six months warning
/ Or come when least expected?
/ Will I trip over it one morning
/ And find…

Sala de Esperanza - by Lawrence Hergott, MD

{ Poem }

The sign on the hospital wall
/ identifying the space
/ begins with a Spanish phrase—
/ sala de espera,
/ waiting room.
/
/ A more symbolic phrase
/ may have deeper…

The Green Grass - by Joseph Lee

{ Poem }

The dead spake together last night,
/ And one to the other said:
/ …

Connecting Cultures - by Liz Lochhead

{ Poem }

Such words can sound like flagged-up slogans, true. / What we merely say says nothing — / All that matters…

Chaunticleer’s Prayer - by Ian McFadyen

{ Poem }

Whit gart ye gie
/ peacocks thon
/ tails fu’ o eyes
/ Lord?
/ Lord?
/ It’s me
/ gaurs the sun rise!
/ …

from The Book of Why? - by Alec Finlay

{ Poem }

Why doesn’t a chair fly?
Why do we have tongues?
Why are the stars so silver?

A wolf in the park - by Richard Edwards

{ Poem }

Is there a wolf,
/ A wolf in the park,
/ A wolf who wakes when the night gets dark?
/ Is there a wolf in…

An Address to potential aliens - by John Hegley

{ Poem }

Is there any body out there?
Have you got ears for this?
Have you got osmosis?

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