Rain - by
I love all films that start with rain:
rain, braiding a windowpane
or darkening a hung-out dress
or streaming down her upturned face…
weather
Here’s the Weather - by
Fae stooshie tae fankle tae bouroch tae dreck / we’re steeped in the downpour of dialect.
/ …
The Cloud - by
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
/ From the seas and…
Cyclone - by
A thoroughbred cyclone,
/ recently arrived in Cuba from the Bahama Islands.
/ It was raised in Bermuda,
/ but has relatives in Barbados.
/ It has been…
Hurricane Georges - by
Me wake up in the middle of the night
/ and me foot bottom wet. Mommy come in
/ with shower curtain to put…
Non Semper Imbres - by
It’s no aye rainin’ on the misty Achils,
/ It’s no aye white wi’ winter on Nigour ;
/ The…
A Schule Laddie’s Lament on the Lateness o’ the Season - by
The east wind’s whistlin’ cauld an’ shrill,
/ The snaw lies on the Lomont Hill;
/ It’s simmer i’ the almanack,
/ But…
Southwest Harris - by
This island is discontent as light
/ glanced under precipitation:
/ a weather system from south of Islay.
/ Ireland is there, under Malin Head.
/
/ A melting…
November - by
A Scots owersett o a Poem bi John Clare
/
/ The kintra sleeps in haar frae morn till nicht;
/ An, gin the sun…