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Poem no. 227

POEM TITLE Thee Ole Lobster Pot POEM Mist cloaked hills hide land from eye, Black water breaking at firth on forth, Clop an chop of hoof...

Poem no. 226

POEM TITLE Sea-larking POEM Sea-Larking Fishing the bay of blackness on sea, I snagged a thing in my net. The waves parted in shame. Bare...

Poem no. 225

POEM TITLE The Pearl that is Blackness on Sea POEM On a trip down from the Highlands we took the coast road at our leisure. We came...

Poem no. 224

POEM TITLE The Journey of no return POEM I passed by the fife, It was a journey of no return, Waves and lightning Piercing screams and...

Poem no. 223

POEM TITLE The Lobster Pot POEM "That’s them, is it no?" I say, nodding towards the two guys leaning against the bar. "That’s who?" you...

Poem no. 220

POEM TITLE Blackness Mudlark POEM Blackness Mudlark After the storm, that howling night, then this reluctant dawn, I walk along the...

Poem no. 221

POEM TITLE You Are Here POEM You Are Here Blackness Castle, Blackness on Sea We have come so that my sons can touch history hewn and...

Poem no. 220

POEM TITLE Guardians of Blackness on Sea POEM Expanse of fused sea to sky swallows boats afloat Global brine from foreign veins flows...

Poem no. 219

POEM TITLE Alternate Universe where my mother feeds me Oysters POEM in the wakefulness of my hunger for luminescence i rifle through...

Poem no. 218

POEM TITLE Goan hae a keek! POEM Rabbie burns and Robert louis Stephenson, long has been the association, while I’m nae McGonnagall, I’ll...

Poem no. 217

POEM TITLE To Be Daring Or To Be Bold? POEM If you check any modern dictionary, To equate daring and boldness is ordinary. But when we...

Poem no. 215, 216

POEM TITLE A Place Enchanted POEM Morning has come and the sun is shining On all things living and non-living The water is crystal blue...

Poem no. 214

POEM TITLE Lobster Pot Life POEM Visitor oan the John Muir Way stopped off at braw Blackness-on-Sea, an' visitit the Lobster Pot, at...

Poem no. 213

POEM TITLE To Blackness on the Sea, from an American Who Has Never Been There POEM That summer the gulls urged us upward to the...

Poem no. 212

POEM TITLE Ancient and Old POEM Sitting bored alongside the little stream, Feeling the Blackness of Sea stretching in the offing, I see...

Poem no. 211

POEM TITLE The Ship That Never Sailed POEM With a picnic we would linger, where gowans freely grew Where seaweed left a salty trail and...

Poem no. 210

POEM TITLE The Old Sailor's Last Night atThe Lobster Pot Pub POEM The Old Sailor’s Last Night at the Lobster Pot Pub “When chill November...

Poem no. 209

POEM TITLE Blackness Castle, January 1963 For My Mother That January the term began with snowploughs, and the red car she drove us in to...

Poem no. 208

POEM TITLE Life's Lobster Pot POEM Life’s Lobster Pot At the meeting of the forth and fife, I stopped to gaze and ponder life. To pause...

Poem no. 207

POEM TITLE Rejected Shards of a Rainbow POEM Rejected Shards of a Rainbow People forget Blackness Has many colours Hiding Or snuggling...

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