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

aug 28 - “When life's last sun gangs feebly down, And death comes to our door - When a the warld's a dream, to us, We'll go to sea no more,
No more,
We'll go to sea no more.”

aug 27 - “The lift is blue, and the hills are blue, And the lochan in atween;
But nane sae blue as the blaeberry mou' That needna tell whaur it's been.”

aug 26 - “ripe harvest in late summer”

aug 25 - “Days passed - or what passed for days”

aug 24 - “A he'rt tae break, an' a mou' tae kiss, Tho' he be nae mine, as I am his.”

aug 23 - “I'll carry ma lantern, and daur defend ye agin ony foe; and whilst there is breath in me, I'll blaw it intae ye.”

aug 22 - “They hae sought it up, they hae sought it doon, They hae sought it maist severely, Till they fand it on the fair plum-tree That shines on the bowling-green o Airlie.”

aug 21 - “like every new experience because it was new to you”

aug 20 - “My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;
My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;”

aug 19 - “It whole or almost whole, Acceptance and gratitude
Like travellers return
And stand where first they stood.”