unner the tree

a tuim shoppin cairt

fouin wi fawin fruct

under the tree

an empty shopping trolley

filling with falling fruit

new maisic  -

days o weet

hiv chynged the burn's souch

new music  -

days of rain

have changed the stream's tone

blue bonnets in an oot

o the auld post boax

...a deleevery suin?

blue tits in and out

of the old post box

...a delivery soon?

yoga cless  -

a bummer's equal-aqual

on a flooer's heid

yoga class  -

a bee balances

on a flower's head

the african  lassie

feshes a glintin smirk

tae a dreich day

the african girl

fetches a gleaming smile

to a dull wet day

the bodach an the bummer

rist a whilie  - syne yoke tae

gairdenin 

the old man and the bee

rest a while  -  then set to

gardening 

muinlicht

skailt on the brainches

peer flourish

moonlight

scattered on the branches

pear blossom

oot frae the chippy

a bodach  -

sheddae o a maw follaes him

out from the chip-shop

an old man  -

shadow of a gull follows him

sneck aff the T.V.

hearken: a burd

croonin on the aerial

turn  off the T.V.

listen: a bird

singing on the aerial

ginge gibbie-cat

peerie teeger

sowpin frae a bowlie

ginger tom

little tiger

supping from a bowl

i the scrogs

a tasht bottle seegnals:

sinsheen an cluds

in the undergrowth

a broken bottle signals:

sunshine and clouds

ink-derk burn -

calligraphy 

o sweels an swirls

ink-dark stream  -

calligraphy 

of eddies and whirlpools

blowster  

skirlin

in a rin-awa bucket

gale

howling

in a run-away dustbin

athort the pome

a peerie reid eemock

...its bluid bydes, a comma

across the poem

a little red ant  

...its blood remains, a comma

fundin ma auld truan -

baith o's rousty nou  

we'll bigg nae mair wa's

finding my old trowel  -

both of us rusty now  

we'll build no more walls