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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 […]

A Memory - by Margaret Sackville

{ Poem }

There was no sound at all, no crying in the village,
/ Nothing you would count as sound, that is, after the…

Thonder they ligg - by Douglas Young

{ Poem }

Frae the Gaelic o George Campbell Hay
/
/ “Thonder they ligg on the grund o the sea,
/ nae the hyne whaur they…

The Green Grass - by Joseph Lee

{ Poem }

The dead spake together last night,
/ And one to the other said:
/ …

Lest… - by Vincent O'Sullivan

{ Poem }

‘They make so little difference, the brass, / the tears. Can’t you leave us be?’
/ …

The House by the Sea, Eriskay - by Niall Campbell

{ Poem }

This is where the drowned climb to land.
For a single night when a boat goes down

soaked footprints line its cracked path
as inside they stand open mouthed at a fire

Nigg - by Ken Morrice

{ Poem }

Time alone separates the dull red
/ granite of these cliffs and the red
/ clay in the kirkyard yonder.
/ As I stand…

In Flanders Fields - by John McCrae

{ Poem }

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
/ Between the crosses, row on row,
/ That mark our place; and…

Anither season - by Ross Wilson

{ Poem }

In memory of Alec “Spangles” Hunter (1936 – 1995)
/
/ When they found Marciano’s body
/ strapped in the crashed plane seat,
/ someone said…

A Dead Man - by Roderick Watson Kerr

{ Poem }

A dead man dead for weeks
/ Is sickening food for lover’s eye
/ That seeks and ever seeks
/ A fair one’s beauty…

Hallaig - by Somhairle MacGill-Eain
Sorley MacLean

{ Poem }

‘Tha tìm, am fiadh, an coille Hallaig’
/
/ Tha bùird is tàirnean air an uinneig
/ trom faca mi an Àird Iar
/ ’s tha mo…

Latha Foghair - by Somhairle MacGill-Eain
Sorley MacLean

{ Poem }

’S mi air an t-slios ud
latha foghair,
na sligean a’ sianail mum chluasan
agus sianar marbh ri mo ghualainn

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