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windows

Diwali, Manchester 2001 - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

I think of windows as I think of caves…

In Retirement - by Elma Mitchell

{ Poem }

Widowed of my own image
/ That shone from fellow faces
/ I watch from envious window
/ The men whose energies at morning…

Progress - by Douglas Dunn

{ Poem }

There they are, widows of the professoriate
/ Tied to their frail routines, but not unfree
/ Wheeling their shopping zimmers on Market Street;
/ And…

Follies - by Penny Boxall

{ Poem }

We round the Brunel coast, in a train
/ crowded with bags and elbows. Tunnels gape
/ through mountains. Someone coughs. Now at sea:
/ the…

Curtain - by Gordon Jarvie

{ Poem }

Remembering an Edinburgh neighbour
/
/
/ Descending her garden path
/ she turns, backtracks indoors
/ again, and into the front room
/ to straighten a…

A Window - by Sami Muhanna

{ Poem }

Between the sunrise and me there’s a window. / So I greet my old friends the morning air / and…

The Coast of Widows - by George Gunn

{ Poem }

A broken necklace of crofts
/ strewn across the sandstone floor
/ of the north Caithness coast
/ these sea-beat parishes where the fields
/ are…

To Any Reader - by Robert Louis Stevenson

{ Poem }

As from the house your mother sees
/ You playing round the garden trees,
/ So you may see, if you will look
/ Through the…

From a Window in Princes Street - by William Ernest Henley

{ Poem }

Above the Crags that fade and gloom
/ Starts the bare knee of Arthur’s Seat;
/ Ridged high against the evening bloom,…

Ever Northwards - by Ivan Štrpka

{ Poem }

A few more looks over
/ my breeze-polished shoulders
/ and I shall be home.
/
/ The spilled-over
/ window deepens with every gaze.
/ On the island
/ which incessantly…

Second Lives - by David Kinloch

{ Poem }

Leaves turn sere and there are bings
/ from networks stretching in through the window:
/ you could tiptoe now among the stubby thumbs…

A Poem for a Morning - by Margaret Tait

{ Poem }

I had to get nearer the sky,
For the city was too full of rooms
And I can’t be content with a window.

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