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Margaret’s Moon - by Jackie Kay

{ Poem }

After she died, I swear the sky
/ Had the most beautiful of all sunsets,
/ A blush of pink, then red, a glass…

Winter Twilight in West Lothian - by Isobel Wylie Hutchison

{ Poem }

The sun’s going down behind the great shale-heap
/ Over against the village; shadows creep
/ Shifting from door to door, and all the…

Solway Tide - by Dorothy Margaret Paulin

{ Poem }

An unco sough i’ the gloamin’
/ An’ a flaff o’ risin’ win’,
/ A glisk o’ stoundin’ waters
/ …

City Sunset - by Celestine Kulagoe

{ Poem }

At six
/ the sun sets
/ escorted by puffs of blushing clouds,
/ distributing its last golden wealth
/ to the immediate…

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