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Saturday, 13 September 2014

Framed

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

Still to bring their own sense of before
Here & now for all the while
Onto 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

Later we will look back
With a self satisfied smile
On our fellow travellers


Friday, 12 September 2014

Thursday, 11 September 2014

Solitude No More

You think I want to be here alone
I want to tell you that plainly isn't true
The reason that I'm here at all
Is because I want to be here with you


Wednesday, 10 September 2014

Queen of the Clearance

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 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 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 carry it strong
Shares the faith, let us 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 every last-time rousing song


Tuesday, 9 September 2014

Seedlings in Flight

The water and the wind
The water and the wind
The water, and the wind
The water, the wind &
The grasses blown home to you

The grasses blown 
Blown on
To thoughts of home
On the water and the wind
Thoughts blown home to you

Here among your
Highland grounds
Here among your
Standing stones
Here among your land

Of endless lochs
Here among
The water and the wind
Here among the thoughts
I blow on home to you