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The Art of Listening - by Veronica Aaronson

{ Poem }

Hunt out wild flowers,
reach out, not to pick them
but as an offer of intimacy.

Dandelions - by Gerda Stevenson

{ Poem }

You clamour at my retina, a cascade / of cartwheels, demanding paint / from my palette

Rose Hips and Thistles - by Marion McCready

{ Poem }

It’s been a long Indian summer / and the hips are rotting on the beach rose. / I can almost…

Lady’s-Slipper Orchid - by Andrew Young

{ Poem }

Though I know well enough
/ To hunt the Lady’s Slipper now
/ Is playing blindman’s-buff,
/ For it was June She put it on
/ And grey…

Ferns like poems - by Ian Abbot

{ Poem }

They rise
/ out of the earth like innocent serpents set to strike.
/ Their folded, poisoned heads assume
/ an attitude of piety; humility…

Poppies - by J. B. Salmond

{ Poem }

No great triumphal march
/ For lads like you;
/ No pasteboard victory arch,
/ No grand review.
/ In…

‘flowering gorse bush’ - by Thomas A. Clark

{ Poem }

as leaves have grown / back in branches / songs have come / among the leaves…

Mistaking the season - by Yosa Buson

{ Poem }

Mistaking the season
the dandelion is blooming
in the frost on the road

Snowdrops - by J. B. Pick

{ Poem }

Snowdrops are not innocent:
/ They fight for what they win.
/ Beauty’s what comes out:
/ Blind energy goes in.
/
/ …

In Flanders Fields - by John McCrae

{ Poem }

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
/ Between the crosses, row on row,
/ That mark our place; and…

‘Scotland small?’ - by Hugh MacDiarmid

{ Poem }

Scotland small? Our multiform, our infinite Scotland small?
/ Only as a patch of hillside may be a cliché corner
/ To a fool…

Nettles - by Neil Munro

{ Poem }

O sad for me Glen Aora,
/ Where I have friends no more,
/ For lowly lie the rafters,
/ …

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