Willie's Campaign

A warmer wind
Nine seagulls on sentry duty
On top of the ferryboat docking posts

Out in the sound
Past the buoys and the markers
Beyond the Shiants and the fish-farms

A warmer water
Suited to dolphins and whales
Soaked in dreams of human pastimes

Framed for the canvas
Stilled by the paintbrush or camera
Settled by slower words, irregular verse

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Framed

Endless shimmers
Wave after wave of nostalgia
Patterns thought never to be repeated

Bring their own sense of what’s gone on before
They dwell here & now for a while
Before moving on, to afterwards, ever so slowly

Photographers flip out
Their flip up cameras
Form into rows and rows

To capture the ferry's berth
We are number two
In the orderly queue

We look back, focus
With a self satisfied smile
On our fellow travellers

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Itinerant

A hive and a beanstalk

A tin hut on the bog

Heaven on a peat moor

Slow down you damnable frog

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Solitude No More

You think I want to be here alone
But I have to say that isn't true
The reason that I'm here at all
Is to be here alone with you

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Queen of the Clearence

She owned a million acres
I did not own a single one
She owned a million acres
Yet it is her lands beauty
That my eyes now ache upon

She was a lady of the lowlands
With edicts oft emerging from
She was a lady of the lowlands
Though it is her natures beauty
That has me now rising strong

The mourn of loch and lay line
Helps us to carry on
The scorn of loss and lost time
Gives the faith to live it long
Shares the faith to live it long

Live it long by stones and steeples
Live it long by folk and lore
Live it long in every moment
Live it long
Through the length
Of all your rousing songs

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