Status Updates From A Scottish Poem A Day

apr 21 - “I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.”

apr 20 - “The whole train is an egg and I'm inside it”

apr 19 - “Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine - no distant date”

apr 18 - “It is not in the sorrow of the deep, For sunset's magic turns to pearls her tears”

apr 17 - “Loud the wind howls, loud the waves roar, Thunderclaps rend the air
Baffled our foes, stand by the shore
Follow they will not dare”

apr 16 - “For mony a heart thou hast made sair That ne'er did wrong to thine or thee.”

apr 15 - “The lover of my love, o where?”

apr 14 - “Love's a fire that needs renewal Of fresh beauty for its fuel:
Love's wing moults when caged and captured, Only free, he soars enraptured.”

apr 13 - “Well, you asked me for a story, so I gave you one.
And if you don't believe me find another stream”

apr 12 - “And the birch says
it's about dancing and colour
and the rowan says it's about berries and birds
and the willow says it's about shape and shelter
and the hazel says it's about love and lichen
and the aspen says
it's about growth and the wind
but I say it's about listening to the trees”

apr 11 - “The roses are the magic blue That in the faery gardens grew, Not fashioned for themselves alone, But for the common beauty grown”

apr 10 - “Make but your heart a cage, To hold what you desire”

apr 9 - “I suspect you'd hoped to impress me, to lift to my sight our shared country, lead me deeper into what you know, but loath to cause fear you're already moving quietly away, sure I'll go with you, as I would now, almost anywhere”

apr 8 - “A waft Of soft air cooled his face, the same
As on summer nights or under leafy trees”

apr 7 - “"Tis tidings of disaster if you live not”

apr 6 - “ I'm waiting for this dandelion to roar”

apr 5 - “I love its silky softness when it's folded to a square Which I can roll into a ball and pretend it isn't there”

apr 4 - “But when we left
(tossing our hats in the air), beyond the school borders, the streams overflowed and the dams broke with the water hoarded in our hearts
and all the girls flowed out into the world in alphabetical disorder”

apr 3 - “Wi highland bonnets on their heads And claymores bright and clear, They cam' to fight for Scotland's right And the young Chevalier”