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Field Days - by Gerry Cambridge

{ Poem }

Old Davie still did much farm work by hand.
/ Tae thin neeps, ye gae up an doon thae rowse.
/ Leave…

The Job Interview - by Ross McCleary

{ Poem }

You’ve already admitted that you came unprepared.
You’ve already admitted that you need them
more than they need you.

Luck is not chance - by Emily Dickinson

{ Poem }

Luck is not chance —It’s Toil —Fortune’s expensive smileIs earned —The Father of the MineIs that old-fashioned CoinWe spurned —

Discharged - by David Mackie

{ Poem }

When the fighting days are over,    And we’re finished with the fray,When they draft us back to Dover    To be put on pension pay;You may think we’ll be in clover    But remember this, my son,When the fighting days are over,    Then our fight has just begun. It is hard, there’s no […]

In Days of Darkness - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

Two days before your death, you wrote / There is not much to report from here.

Buddy, Can You Spare a Rhyme? - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

Buddy can you spare a rhyme, the time, / a line for Paisley?…

The Well-Spring - by Stewart Conn

{ Poem }

Since the former priestess’s departure / a sea-change has taken place.

My Father, Dreaming - by Magi Gibson

{ Poem }

The train glides through a world of frozen white,
/ low mists swirl and smudge the mirror of the Clyde,
/ Helensburgh stretches…

Digging - by Alan Jackson

{ Poem }

fallen in a heap
/ again
/ why do i keep
/ falling in a heap?
/
/ i got plaster
/ i got bricks
/ i got a…

Every Woman - by Aiko Greig

{ Poem }

Who can gauge our range or pace? Every woman, / a signal tower, an illusion, a ship bearing dead ahead.

Book Dusters - by Hamish Whyte

{ Poem }

It’s like painting / the Forth Bridge / without the fresh air / and fear / of drowning.

Early Morning, West Hartlepool, 1963 - by Eddie Gibbons

{ Poem }

(from the photo with the same title by Don McCullin)
/
/ A pipe fitter’s mate at the gates of dawn
/ Is wrenched from…

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