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POEM TITLE I Dream the Moving Sea POEM Though I live and work on the land, each night I dream the moving sea. It calls to me, crooning...

POEM TITLE A Sense of Belonging POEM Driving into Blackness for the very first time I saw a village picturesque with far reaching views...

POEM TITLE A Trip Thro' Blackness POEM Bult` fae Crichton’s gowd ‘n’ silver Louis 'n' Rabbie’s ink 'n' paper Archbishops' isolation...

POEM TITLE The Blackness Retreat POEM Fae skelp o’ squall 'n' sautie drift, beast as crabbit as kraken! Steadfast ah tackle 'n' retreat...

POEM TITLE A Trip Thro' Blackness POEM Bult` fae Crichton’s gowd ‘n’ silver Louis 'n' Rabbie’s ink 'n' paper Archbishops isolation...

POEM TITLE The Blackness Retreat POEM O’ skelp o’ gale 'n' sautie drift, beast as crabbit as kraken! Haud yer feet or reel 'n' retreat?...

POEM TITLE Equidistance POEM Equidistance "It's the best thing I've found in 31 years of diving: the spot where a centuries-old shipwreck...

POEM TITLE Nebulous Strike in Edinburgh POEM Nebulous Strike in Edinburgh Six months into prepartum trauma, I occupied the alley,...

POEM TITLE Black Ode POEM To thy my misty keep, to people hearty and seas deep. May you shine and never rot, you pearl of spot, The...

When I was a wee girl we would visit Blackness-on-sea We had great fun on the beach, a great place for all the family Then I moved away...

POEM TITLE Our Lady of Blackness POEM She carved out the rocks one wave at a time, sometimes patient, flowing gently, but many nights her...

POEM TITLE Blackness Bay (A villanelle for Catherine) POEM If I could give you just another day, We would spend it somewhere that we both...

POEM TITLE Blackness POEM The memories wash me I am the beach Scotland pulses Blackness the heart beat I walk the wall Giant gulls...

POEM TITLE Bound By The Bay POEM The greatness of ages cannot be lost, Under castle shadow in firth we trust, And oysters quiver beneath...

POEM TITLE The Village POEM Old Max is humming a tune, While Davie talks to a lass at the bar. I can’t help but think of how all too...

POEM TITLE The Blackness Potter POEM The Blackness Potter (circa 1789) Sung to the tune ‘Ghost Riders in the Sky,’ with audience...

POEM TITLE Blackness on Sea POEM Blackness on Sea. From River Forth the world was open, For men to travel on the Ocean. The blackened...

POEM TITLE Nimisha POEM FIn her layette, she looked fair. ‘Nimisha’, the parents called her. When aged five, the polio plucked the...

POEM TITLE Monsoon Turbulence POEM Waves leap over his roof again. Coconut sentinels lose their heads. His breakwater breaks, but he...

POEM TITLE Dining with Lobster, Bon Appétit! POEM ‘We’re All Doomed’ boomed sign above entrance—for sure for us lobsters now chittering...