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Lament for the Lads - by Neil Munro

{ Poem }

Ochone o for na gillean departed,    Sundered by seas from us, buried afar.Gone are the lads who were leal and high-hearted     And we are now dreeing the dolours of war.’Illean, ’illean, ’illean,    Sorrow may fade but your fame shall endure,’Illean, ’illean, ’illean,    While flower’s in the forest and wind’s on […]

Twenty Years Ago - by J. B. Salmond

{ Poem }

August 1934 There’s a thin rain of music comes across the poppied corn,    Across the poppied corn and the sun-splashed sea,Crying, ‘Who’s a-going venturing, a-venturing, a-venturing,    Who’s a-going venturing with all a man can be?’O, listen, listen, listen, for it’s far, far away,    The dim remembered country where the ghostly pipers blow,Across […]

Reconciliation - by Margaret Sackville

{ Poem }

When all the stress and all the toil is over,And my lover lies sleeping by your lover,With alien earth on hands and brows and feet,          Then we may meet. Moving sorrowfully with uneven paces,The bright sun shining on our ravaged faces,There, very quietly, without sound or speech,          […]

In Memoriam - by James Pittendrigh Macgillivray

{ Poem }

Blue-eyed, white-souled; blameless in word and deed! —
How fortunate a thing it is to leave
This life in such a way that none may grieve,

Na Mairbh san Raoin - by Murchadh Moireach

{ Poem }

Bu shunntach iad a’ dol thar raoin na strì
Tha ’n sin ’nan laighe sìnt’ an sàmhchair bhuain

Ar Tìr ’s Ar Gaisgich A Thuit sna Blàir - by Iain Rothach

{ Poem }

(ii) ’S iomadh fear àlinn, òg, sgairteil, deas-làmhach, Ait-fhaoilt air chinn a bhlàth-chridh’, Tric le ceum daigheann, làidir, ceum aotrum, glan, sàil-ghlan Dhìrich bràigh nam beann mòra, Chaidh a choinneimh a’ bhàis – Tric ga fhaireach’ roimh-làimh – Chaidh suas chum a’ bhlàir ’S tha feur glas an-diugh ’fàs Air na dh’fhàg innleachdan nàmh, Innleachdan […]

The Home-Coming - by Joseph Lee

{ Poem }

When this blast is over-blown,
And the beacon fires shall burn
And in the street
Is the sound of feet –
They also shall return.

Will You Forget ? - by David Mackie

{ Poem }

Will you forget?
/ When all the fight is done,
/ And victory is…

Flowers - by Judith Taylor

{ Poem }

I wanted to write an elegy
/ without flowers. I know they’re a requirement…

A Prayer for Youth at Sea - by Isobel Wylie Hutchison

{ Poem }

Captain ! There is no harbour that is sure
/ Save Thy sure harbour. Over minèd seas
/ Gathers the dreadful dawn that…

In Memoriam 1971 - by Joan Ure

{ Poem }

Certain women. And some young boys.
/ Women with some uncertainties
/ but something they knew about
/ that made them need to say something.
/ Two of…

Bright - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

You’re building another Christmas for one, /decorating the present with sparkly / lights & glitter, a long line of cards…

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