bente’s Reviews > A Year of Scottish Poems > Status Update

feb 14 - “Seeing the false and searching for the true”

“A fountain in a waste, A well of water in a country dry, Or anything that's honest and good, an eye That makes the whole world bright.”

feb 13 - “Darling, I will track your flight till it is a dot that turns and banks and falls out of sight, looking into the space where you were.”

feb 11 - “Why, as we reach the Falls of Death, Feel we its tide more rapid?”

feb 10 - “What I wanted was such a plump, bountiful landscape of snow, more than I'd ever dared wish for.”

feb 9 - “Small words yawn and suck their thumbs
Till at last the morning comes.
Kind words give out farewell posies…

Snap! The dictionary closes.”

feb 8 - “Consider the way she had to go, Think of the hungry snare, The net she herself had woven, Aware or unaware, Of the dancing feet grown still, The blinded eyes -
Queens should be cold and wise”

feb 7 - “Ye Highlands and ye Lawlands, Oh! where hae ye been?”

feb 6 - “So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war”

feb 5 - “O to dream, O to awake and wander There, and with delight to take and render, Through the trance of silence,
Quiet breath;”

feb 4 - “You might as well love 'em.”