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Observances - by James Pittendrigh Macgillivray

{ Poem }

A boy row in a umman’s coatie –
/ In a man’s sark row a lassie:
/ Nor wash…

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…

Scotch Astrology - by Alexander Scott

{ Poem }

Omen
/ In the gloamin.

Eilean Fraoich - by Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn
Iain Crichton Smith

{ Poem }

“Eilean fraoich, Eilean fraoich,”
/ ann an solus uaine
/ eadar d à bh ù th
/ air Sauchiehall St. …

Auckland Farewell - by Donald Smith

{ Poem }

Easter 2010
/
/ three master glide
/ soundlessly
/ past north head
/ pacific wave
/ going home
/ new voyage…

The Bewteis of the Fute-Ball - by Scottish anonymous

{ Poem }

Brissit, brawnis and broken banis,
/ Strife, discord and waistit wanis,
/ Crookit in eild, syn halt withal –
/ These are the bewteis…

Taxman - by George Mackay Brown

{ Poem }

Seven scythes leaned at the wall.
/ Beard upon golden beard
/ The last barley load
/ Swayed through the yard.
/ The girls uncorked the ale.
/ Fiddle and…

Wee oors - by Humberto Ak’abal

{ Poem }

In the heich oors o the nicht
/ stars strip aff
/ and douk in the rivers.
/
/ Hoolets grein for them,
/ the wee feathers on…

Lucy Ashton’s Song - by Sir Walter Scott

{ Poem }

Look not thou on beauty’s charming,
/ Sit thou still when kings are arming,
/ Taste not when the wine-cup glistens,
/ Speak…

The Solitaries - by Olive Fraser

{ Poem }

The merry badger keeps his way
/ Nocturnally,
/ And I go merry to my play
/ Even as he.
/
/ Minding our own business
/ Tending our own,
/ We…

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