swaws rowin in
fite-cappit
...maws on the strand
waves rolling in
white-capped
...gulls on the shore
kintra nicht maisic -
a dug barks, twa dugs bark
thray dugs...
country night music -
a dog barks, two dogs bark
three dogs..
tropical Isle
fantoush farins
...granfaither blaws on's scoatch bree
tropical island
exotic foods
...granddad blows on his his scotch broth
a fuffy queue -
suddently a bairn croons
...smirks spreid
an impatient queue -
suddenly a child sings
...smiles spread
stert o the saison -
in the soomin puil
a lane deuk
start of the season -
in the swimming pool
a lone duck
maggie
nest biggin -
gies a haun wi the weedin
magpie
nest building -
helps with the weeding
frae ma winnock -
a tod lamps by, an
ambulance stops...it ma yett
from my window -
a fox lopes past, an
ambulance stops...at my gate
leafless sauchs -
thair yallaness an oorie
bonnienesss i the weet
leafless willows -
their yellowness
a strange beauty in the rain
echa -
the lassie left her sang
i the unnerpass
echo -
the young girl left her song
in the underpass
jazz i the gairden -
bleckie bleck bleckie broon
... a blae egg
jazz in the garden -
blackbird black blackbird brown
...a blue egg
.
mornin hunds
yowlin, knackin
the bunts o freesty ghaists
morning hounds
howling, snapping
the tails of frosty ghosts
fou muin -
i the gairden bawdrons' een
...yalla sins
full moon -
In the garden cat's eyes
...yellow suns
the fush-van
feshes a snowk o the sea
tae the causey
the fish-van
fetches a smell of the sea
to the street
fluid trock redd -
the burn
croonin agane
flood debris cleared -
the stream
singing again
roondin a bend i the burn -
the suddent licht
o swans an snawdraps
rounding a bend in the stream -
the sudden light
of swans and snowdrops
covid lockdoon -
we brunt oor palm corse
an sainit ilk ither
covid lockdown -
we burned our palm cross
and blessed each other
(Ash wednesday)
voar sin
a boorach
o daffins
spring sun
a cluster
of daffodils
her gairden
fou o plastic skwurrels -
she fells the rael yins!
her garden
full of plastic squirrels -
she kills the real ones!
Valentine's day -
twa speuggies
halfers a fat-baw
two sparrows
share a fat-ball
ma brunt haun hailin -
its huil
bairnlie new
my burnt hand healing -
its skin
baby new
craws in sinlicht -
on the wa
dirlin graffitti
crows in sunlight -
on the wall
kinetic graffitti
twa windae-waashers -
ah suddently mynd
a cataract appintment
two window-cleaners -
i suddenly remember
a cataract appointment
frae the yirthquak's
derk bore - a peerie bairn
...caum it its hamecomin
from the earthquake's
dark hole - a tiny child
...calm at its second birth
hern
humphed
amang the snawdraps
heron
hunched
among the snowdrops
swan preenin -
a bygaun jogger
...her pink pleats
swan preening -
a passing jogger
...her pink pigtails
swans
doverin on the snaw:
asleep on the snow:
wunter mornin -
throuch lace hingers
jeelt brainches
winter morning -
through lace curtains
frozen branches
new neebours -
thair bawdrons veesits
weirin a reid boo-tie
new neighbours -
their cat visits
wearing a red bow-tie
hogmanay rackets
brustin bricht fir saiconts
...the leal muin
new year fireworks
bursting bright for seconds
...the constant moon
alang the plainstanes -
Yule treen untinselled
staun neist tae the buckets
along the pavement -
Christmas trees untinselled
stand next to the dustbins
furst day it schuil -
mithers
greitin
first day at school -
mothers
crying
Yule mornin -
treen ableeze wi sparks
sae perfitly space't
Christmas morning -
trees ablaze with raindrops
so perfectly spaced
2023 -
a new neb waukens
in shut-doon door-cheek
a new face wakens
in a closed-down doorway