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The Aunties - by Lynn Valentine

{ Poem }

They had the gift. Hidden about them

like a penny at the bottom of a pocket.

Gift - by Ian A. Olson

{ Poem }

The greatest gift
/
/ That Scotland – and Ireland
/ Could receive
/
/ Would be a Voice
/ Proclaiming:
/
/ “As from this day
/ You…

Glasgow Street - by William Montgomerie

{ Poem }

Out of this ugliness may come
/ some day, so beautiful a flower
/ that men…

On a Stairway in Luang Prabang - by Bryan Thao Worra

{ Poem }

Step as you will through life,
/ A thousand ways, a thousand places.
/
/
/ Carry a home in your heart
/ Or spend years seeking the…

Clone Machine - by Mary Blackadder

{ Poem }

What if we could make clones of ourselves?
/ You wouldn’t have to go to school
/ You could just send your clone
/ All you’d…

Pushing forty - by Alison Fell

{ Poem }

Just before winter
we see the trees show
their true colours:
the mad yellow of chestnuts
two maples like blood sisters
the orange beech
braver than lipstick

in hospital - by Tom Leonard

{ Poem }

I like seeing nurse frieda knitting
/ as I like watching my wife knitting
/ as I liked watching my mother knitting
/ though she was…

Foundation - by Edwin Morgan

{ Poem }

‘What would you put in the foundation stone
/ for future generations?’ ‘A horseshoe,
/ a ballet shoe, a horseshoe crab, a sea-horse,
/ a sheriff’s…

The Voyage - by James Robertson

{ Poem }

And if or when the people’s surge subsides
/ to tourist trickles from this present spate,
/ do not relax or quietly desiccate,
/ do not…

Am Bucas - by Derick Thomson

{ Poem }

Anns a’bhliadhna
/ aon air fhichead aon air fhichead,
/ a; cladhach ann a seann làraich,
/ thàinig iad gu bucas
/ làn treallaichean wèidhir is gloinne,
/ le sgàthan…

Beelzebub Resurfaces - by James Robertson

{ Poem }

A girnin, greitin deil wis I –
/ I wis auld, and feelin aulder.
/ Syne the heatin system burst in Hell:
/ It wis cauld…

The Maker to Posterity - by Robert Louis Stevenson

{ Poem }

Far `yont amang the years to be
/ When a’ we think, an’ a’ we see,
/ An’ a’ we luve, `s been dung…

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