“Overnight, very
Whitely, discreetly,
Very quietly”
“Our foot’s in the door”
Poetry Corner: ‘Thrift’
“Here’s a ‘Thrift’ spell for you (from The Lost Spells): about weathering tough times, surviving on margins & glimpsing hope in hard places. I wrote it pre-pandemic; strange to return to it now. To be read aloud. Art by @JackieMorrisArt”
Poetry Corner: ‘COVID ALERT’
“Time to get serious KEEP ORKNEY COVID FREE ,
COVER YER FACE, YES both YOU AND ME”
Poetry Corner Ye Jacobites by Name
On the 17th September 1745 Edinburgh was occupied by the Jacobites under Charles Edward Stuart (aka the Young Pretender or Bonny Prince Charlie)
Poetry Corner: Beannacht / Blessing
“may there come across the waters
a path of yellow moonlight
to bring you safely home”
Seamus Heaney #OnThisDay
On the 30th of August 2013 the poet Seamus Heaney died in Dublin
The Wisdom Of Saadi
“If you have no sympathy for human pain
The name of human you cannot retain”
Poetry Corner Ae Fond Kiss
On 16th July 1439 kissing was banned in England to stop the spread of the Black Death
Abraham Lincoln & Robert Burns
“Robert Burns is Scotland’s poet but he belongs to the world….I make no apologies for beginning my story about Burns not in Ayrshire, but in America.”
Poetry Corner:Scots Wha Hae
The Battle Of Bannockburn.
Scots Wha Hae by Robert Burns.
