Filmpoem 48 / Arctica - by
‘Arctica’ is a triptych by Alastair Cook, commissioned by poet Stevie Ronnie.
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Arctica Triptych 1 / What I Should Have Said - by
Arctica is a triptych by Alastair Cook, commissioned by poet Stevie Ronnie.
Arctica Triptych 3 / From Arctica - by
Arctica is a triptych by Alastair Cook, commissioned by poet Stevie Ronnie.
Winter-Time - by
Late lies the wintry sun a-bed,
A frosty, fiery sleepy-head;
Blinks but an hour or two; and then,
A blood-red orange, sets again.
Before the ice is in the pools - by
Before the fields have finished,
Before the Christmas tree,
Wonder upon wonder
Will arrive to me!
Winter Piece - by
Delicate ermine tracks
/ cross lightly
/ in eights on the winter snow
/ there where a hidden ice-brook with its white fur roof
/ winds forward,
/ there where…
Staying In - by
I watch the city shrug its clothes back on.
/ An appaloosa spatter gathers scent
/ that hits the brain the way it hits…
Winter Bairns - by
Winter bairns are happed in snaw,
singing merrily on the brae.
Cauld aneuch the wind micht blaw,
it winna worry sic as they.
Snaw - by
Es ist ein Schnee gefallen Anon. 16th century
/
/ It’s snawin cats and dugs,
/ Winter’s…
Fiere - by
If ye went tae the tapmost hill, Fiere
Whaur we used tae clamb as girls,
Ye’d see the snow the day, Fiere,
Settling…
Snaw - by
Snaw,
Dingin’ on slaw,
Quait, quait, far nae win’s blaw,
Haps up bonnily the frost-grippit lan’.
From a landscape in April - by
Snowflake grinds against snowflake.
/ Grass creaks like old furniture.
/
/ I spread silence on the fields.
/
/ I bring home thick squares of it
/ to hang…