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The Homecoming - by Manuel Rivas

{ Poem }

For Lois Pereiro
/
/ In Ithaca everyone was dead.
/ They say it was me, Argos the dog, who woke first:
/ — Dead, dead, dead!
/ A smell…

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…

The Hazel Trees - by Hadewijch of Antwerp

{ Poem }

In the beginning Love satisfies us.
/ When Love first spoke to me of love –
/ How I laughed at her in return!…

Trees - by Sue Butler

{ Poem }

You hold the sapling straight, backfill,
/ heel it in. A rainbow
/ pours from the watering can.

The Ash Grove - by Ken Cockburn

{ Poem }

a springtime ash, whose leaves emerge from black
/ an unlocked ash, so profligate with keys…

Lyric IX from ‘Jane’ - by Stuart MacGregor

{ Poem }

When the first darkness creeps upon the floor
/ Your comfort filters green into my nostrils,
/ There is no need to ask for…

Olive Tree - by Réne Stefanelli

{ Poem }

Some friendly soul, quite near old age,
/ when time to think is plenty, sits,
/ still spry enough, beneath an olive tree,
/ to take…

The Hare - by Sydney Tremayne

{ Poem }

Silence, the burden of the song,
Resumes where winds have blasted through.
The white fields swell to the dark sky,
The matrix they are frozen to.

Tree Surgeons - by Brian Johnstone

{ Poem }

They range amongst the upper limbs
/ like primates encumbered with care,
/
/ find parts of trees we’d recognise
/ as human gestures on the level,
/
/ pass…

Easter - by Judita Vaičiūnaitė

{ Poem }

A white cat
/ dozing on the windowsill
/ on a clear Easter evening,
/ outside the window rustling
/ with the Vilnia’s waters
/ a blossoming plumtree
/ from the hundred-year-old…

The Scale of Things - by Margaret Tait

{ Poem }

There’s a whole country at the foot of the stone
/ If you care to look
/ These are the stones we have instead…

Optimism - by Jane Hirshfield

{ Poem }

More and more I have come to admire resilience.
/ Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam
/ returns over and over…

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