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tradition & heritage

How to eat frogs - by Clementine E. Burnley

{ Poem }

Grandmothers croak welcome, and crows
watch from a sagging power line.

A Scotch Night - by Will H. Ogilvie

{ Poem }

If you chance to strike a gathering of half-a-dozen friends
/ When the drink is Highland whusky or some chosen Border blends,
/ And…

The Tradition - by Kathleen Jamie

{ Poem }

For years I wandered hill and moor /
Half looking for the road /
Winding into fairyland.

Old Christmastide - by Sir Walter Scott

{ Poem }

Heap on more wood! the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
Each age has deem’d the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer

Poem Inspired by a Gaelic Topography of Balquhidder Parish: Rev. Alex MacGregor, EUP 1886 - by Sheena Blackhall

{ Poem }

Field of the land producing thatch
/ Shieling of grinding wheat
/ Burn beside the dun coloured dell
/ Burn of the mournful bleat
/
/ Burn of the…

Address to a Haggis - by Robert Burns

{ Poem }

Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,
/ Great Chieftain o’ the Puddin-race!
/ Aboon them a’ ye tak your place,
/ …

Clan Donald’s Call to Battle At Harlaw - by Robert Crawford

{ Poem }

after the Gaelic of Lachlann Mor MacMhuirich (fl. 1411)
/
/ You Clann of Conn, remember this:
/ Strength from the eye of the storm.
/ Be…

from Lochaber for Ever - by Alice MacDonell

{ Poem }

In all thy moods I love thee,
/ In sunshine and in storm;
/ Lochaber of the towering bens,
/ …

Speaking of Scotland - by Maurice Lindsay

{ Poem }

What do you mean when you speak of Scotland?
/ The grey defeats that are dead and gone
/ behind the legends each generation
/ savours…

‘My Belarus with cornflowers blooming . . .’ - by Nadzieja Salanovič

{ Poem }

My Belarus with cornflowers blooming,
/ my land of camomile!
/ I’m no ‘new Belarusian’ woman,
/ I cling to ‘older’ style.
/ Not by broad path, but…

The Way of the World - by G Mend-Ooyo

{ Poem }

We set out on our horses, and the small birds of dawn were with us.
/ We return to the tethering-lines with…

وطنم - by Asadullah Habib

{ Poem }

وطنم قصۀ غمگينی است
/ برهمه باديه و جنگل و دشت
/ که نوشتن نتوان
/ ***
/ خواب رنگين شب عيد منست
/ سربام و شب…

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