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Rain - by Don Paterson

{ Poem }

I love all films that start with rain:
rain, braiding a windowpane
or darkening a hung-out dress
or streaming down her upturned face…

Ossian’s Grave - by Alan Riach

{ Poem }

In the Highlands of Scotland I love,
/ Storm clouds curve down on the dark fields and strands,
/ With icy grey mist closing…

Here’s the Weather - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

Fae stooshie tae fankle tae bouroch tae dreck / we’re steeped in the downpour of dialect.
/ …

Yesterday in Laggan - by Gordon Jarvie

{ Poem }

It was such a day
/ of sunshine wall to wall,
/ of heat haze and the year’s first frogs,
/ of blue hills stretching…

A Night’s Rain - by Walter Wingate

{ Poem }

The thunder clap may clatter –
/ The lichtnin’ flare awa’:
/ I’m listenin’ to the water,
/ …

Scotland - by Alastair Reid

{ Poem }

‘We’ll pay for it, we’ll pay for it, we’ll pay for it!’…

The Song of the Ungirt Runners - by Charles Hamilton Sorley

{ Poem }

We swing ungirded hips, / And lightened are our eyes, / The rain is on our lips, / We do…

The Moult - by Jen Hadfield

{ Poem }

Shelter in the hoodoos and pluck / your fur – fine smell caught on the heather / and shining reeds…

The Cloud - by Percy Bysshe Shelley

{ Poem }

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
/ From the seas and…

from Lifeboat Disaster - by William Montgomerie

{ Poem }

All this second night
/ the wind drops slates into gardens
/ bends steel radio masts at the chimney
/ smashes their teeth on…

‘Kiss me…’ - by Edwin Morgan

{ Poem }

Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes,
/ come on, let us sway together,
/ under the trees, and to hell with thunder.
/ …

Cyclone - by Nicolás Guillén

{ Poem }

A thoroughbred cyclone,
/ recently arrived in Cuba from the Bahama Islands.
/ It was raised in Bermuda,
/ but has relatives in Barbados.
/ It has been…

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