The Future - by
Doncha see the future
brightening like a golden sunset?
Doncha see the future
brightening like a golden sunset?
They had the gift. Hidden about them
like a penny at the bottom of a pocket.
The greatest gift
/
/ That Scotland – and Ireland
/ Could receive
/
/ Would be a Voice
/ Proclaiming:
/
/ “As from this day
/ You…
Out of this ugliness may come
/ some day, so beautiful a flower
/ that men…
Step as you will through life,
/ A thousand ways, a thousand places.
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/
/ Carry a home in your heart
/ Or spend years seeking the…
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…
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
I like seeing nurse frieda knitting
/ as I like watching my wife knitting
/ as I liked watching my mother knitting
/ though she was…
‘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…
And if or when the people’s surge subsides
/ to tourist trickles from this present spate,
/ do not relax or quietly desiccate,
/ do not…
Anns a’bhliadhna
aon air fhichead aon air fhichead,
a; cladhach ann a seann làraich,
thàinig iad gu bucas
A girnin, greitin deil wis I –
/ I wis auld, and feelin aulder.
/ Syne the heatin system burst in Hell:
/ It wis cauld…