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supernatural

The Aunties - by Lynn Valentine

{ Poem }

They had the gift. Hidden about them

like a penny at the bottom of a pocket.

The Listeners - by Walter de la Mare

{ Poem }

‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller,
/ Knocking on the moonlit door;
/ And his horse in…

Stony Vision - by Alan Bold

{ Poem }

On the hillside where they come to cut trees
/ To keep warm through overcast winter days
/ He saw a stone on a…

Wolf Shadow - by Vasko Popa

{ Poem }

They say my great-grandmother
/ The witch Sultana Urošević
/ Had a she-wolf’s shadow
/
/ By moonlight she never
/ Went out of doors
/
/ So no one should tread…

Flying-Fox - by Albert Wendt

{ Poem }

More rat than bird,
/ more superstition than fox,
/ you hang from that banyan
/ branch like a deflated black
/ umbrella and, when you flap
/ through the…

The Rowan - by Violet Jacob

{ Poem }

When the days were still as deith
/ And you couldna see the kye
/ Though ye’d maybe…

Jenny Wi’ the Airn Teeth - by Alexander Anderson

{ Poem }

What a plague is this o’ mine,
/ Winna steek his e’e,
/ Though I hap him ow’r the…

Spirit of the Cloutie Tree - by Dilys Rose

{ Poem }

Mother of all stravaigers, where they pass through
/ she stays, in an oily haze of exhaust
/ from untaxed bangers, leaky caravans –
/ clearing…

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