Wednesday, September 27, 2023

peer tree sindial

streetchin

fir oors



pear tree sundial

stretching

for hours

the jeely rowe

o staunin

on a hodden slug



the jelly roll

of standing

on an unseen slug




jinkin

lik a drouthie  -

snails a'whaur



zigzagging

like a drunk  -

snails  everywhere

Monday, September 25, 2023

hairst  -

a hinmaist waasp

ower forfochen tae stang



autumn  -

a last wasp

too tired to sting

Sunday, September 24, 2023

hairst

taks haud  

...runklin leaves



autumn

takes hold  

...curling leaves


Wednesday, September 20, 2023

monastery bawdrons

on's alms traik  -

the flesher, the baxter...



monastery cat

on his alms journey  -

the butcher,the baker...

Thursday, September 14, 2023

throuch the leaves

persimmons keekin  -

a laich yin tuith-merkit



through the leaves

persimmons peeping  -

a lower one tooth-marked

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

 the yirdin bell

draps slawly throuch the err  

the day: 9/11



the funeral bell

drops slowly through the air  

today: 9/11

Sunday, September 10, 2023

janglin bells...

fuitsteps

stoorin tae Mass



jangling bells...

footsteps

racing to Mass

Saturday, September 09, 2023

 butterie

ristin on the gairden hose

...the thrab o life



butterfly

resting on the garden hose

...the throb of life

 a ruinage re-chartit  -

the maister nou wins awa

on's boattie



ruins re-charted  -

the master now leaves

on his boat


MEMORIAL:

(BRIAN LOWERY OSA 1941-2019)




Friday, September 08, 2023

sic waarmth  -

e'en the butteries

glidin mair nor uisual



such heat  -

even the butterflys

gliding more than usual


Wednesday, September 06, 2023

gairden shed

hapt in hinniesickle

...bummers' boom boax



garden hut

covered in honeysuckle

...bees' boom box

Tuesday, September 05, 2023

frae sauch tae sauch

keengfusher

flourishes a blae threid



from willow to willow

kingfisher

embroiders a blue thread

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

flutherin weengs

it the winnock  -

spaewife's forerinner



fluttering wings

at the window  -

old wives' harbringer

Monday, August 28, 2023

roon an roon

the busker

a butterie jiggin



round and round

the busker

a butterfly dancing

Friday, August 25, 2023

muin  -

panderin 

on an incumin draig



moon  -

drifting 

on an incoming tide

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

flee on the winnock

danderin

amang the cluds



fly on the window

wandering

among the  clouds

weet  -

snail an we unner

oor umbrellys



rain  -

snail and we under

our umberellas


Tuesday, August 22, 2023

pish-the-bed puffbaws  -

aw day quattin this perk

tae seed anither



dandelion puffballs  -

all day leaving this field

to seed another



Thursday, August 17, 2023

attercap

trappit i the bath  -

snawblindit bi nou



spider

trapped in the bath  -

snowblind by now

burthday  -

brunt-oot caunles

on a tuim ashet



birthday  -

burnt-out candles

on an empty plate


Wednesday, August 16, 2023

it last maw chicks

quit the lum nest

...upwreilin reek



at last gull chicks

leave the chimney nest

..spiriling smoke

Saturday, August 12, 2023

aw the wey hame

tentie o dug's claggie luve

on ma fingers



all the way home

feeling dog's sticky love

on my fingers

Friday, August 11, 2023

waashin day  -

leaves

dreep-dryin



washing day  -

leaves

drip-drying

Wednesday, August 09, 2023

houghmagandie

on the plainstanes  -

twa bummers



sex

on the pavement  -

two bumblebees

Monday, August 07, 2023

tirl  -

sinlicht stoors up an doon

a wab threid



breeze  -

sunlight races up and down

a web thread

Saturday, August 05, 2023

a maw chick

aw it sea

amang the traffic



a gull chick

all at sea

among the traffic

Thursday, August 03, 2023

hou the aipple tree

daikers itsel

...peerie reid aipples



how the apple tree

decorates itself

...tiny red apples

Saturday, July 29, 2023

the day

an aipple fell

...a douce yin



today

an apple fell

...a sweet one


(For Sinead O'Connor)

Friday, July 28, 2023

plane tree propellers  -

hairst

fleein in



sycamore propellers  -

autumn

flying in

Thursday, July 27, 2023

snail's siller steid

suddently splittert

...siller fuitprent



snail's silver trail

suddenly splattered

...silver footprint

Wednesday, July 26, 2023

bleckie

neb fou o wirms

...hedgeraw medusa



blackbird

beak full of worms

...hedgerow medusa

Wednesday, July 19, 2023

a ginge gibbie-cat

on the skive

fir luve or bluid



a ginger tom-cat

on the prowl

for love or blood

butterie's

stravaigins  -

sae zen lik



butterfly's

wanderings   -

so zen like

Monday, July 17, 2023

wull brummles  

teirin

oor hauns



wild brambles

tearing

our hands

Friday, July 14, 2023

waddin mindin  -

ilka year the roses

aye clap thegither


anniversary gift  -

every year the roses

still cling together

Monday, July 10, 2023

 the bummer's druin

i the lily's craig

...bumbazin tanpura



the bee's drone

in the lily's throat

...hypnotic tanpura


Saturday, July 08, 2023

furst puff-baw seed  -

lanely ghaist

stravaigin



first puff-ball seed  -

lonely ghost

wandering

croonin-day  -

a flee-by

o deuks



coronation -day  -

a fly-past

of ducks

Wednesday, July 05, 2023

Rose o Sharon -

the roariest buss

i the gairden



Rose of Sharon  -

the noisiest bush

in the garden

Monday, July 03, 2023

fellin firs -

the incense

the droosie coos


felling pines  -

the incense

the drowsie cows

sneddin roses  -

fite roses

reiddnin



pruning roses  -

white roses

reddening

Saturday, July 01, 2023

 wundy  -

the sauch chynges her dress

frae emerant tae siller



windy  -

the willow changes her dress

from green to silver


Friday, June 30, 2023

cauld wund  -

the burn

chitters



cold wind  -

the stream

shivers

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

gairden pairty  -

throuch the scrogs

straeberries' reid een



garden party  -

through the undergrowth

strawberries' red eyes

Friday, June 23, 2023

years bygaun

the bairns' photy

slawly dwinin



years passing

the childrens' photograph

slowly fading


Wednesday, June 21, 2023

roastin day  -

amang oor sheddaes

a droopin yin



hot day  -

among our shadows

a drooping one


Saturday, June 17, 2023

the quate burn

meets wi the clints

...threeps




the silent stream

meets the rocks

...utters


the orchid's heid

faws

...flutherin butterie



the orchids's head

falls

...fluttering butterfly

Thursday, June 15, 2023

fush-cadger's tooter

cryin in

...fush frae the sea



fishmonger's horn

summoning

...fish from the sea


Tuesday, June 13, 2023

amang jenny nettles

a hodden flooer  -

its reidness is its blateness



among nettles

a hidden flower  -

its redness is its shyness

Thursday, June 08, 2023

troot lowps

in an oot o the burn

...siller steeks



trout leaps

in and out of the stream

...silver stitches

Saturday, June 03, 2023

doitit he liggs on clints

waasht up  -  the yin on the brae

skairs's pyne



demented he lies on rocks

washed up  -  the one on the hill

shares his pain

(Peter howson's judas)

Friday, June 02, 2023

ristin on an ashet

flet peaches  -

thair sax bare erses



resting on a plate

flat peaches  -

their six bare bottoms

ettlin tae fit

key tae lock  -

the bodach's trummlin haun



trying to fit

key to lock  -

the old man's trembling hand

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

heavin up

frae the lum-heid

a coomy craw



rising

from the chimney-pot

a sooty crow

Thursday, May 25, 2023

speuggie keeks

throuch the wisteria

...his purpie dreidlocks



sparrow peeps

through the wisteria

...his purple dreadlocks



Wednesday, May 24, 2023

pop-concert  -

alang the wey,

gairden wa's broukit wi pish



pop-concert  -

en-route, garden walls

stained with urine





Friday, May 19, 2023

waddin day  -

cleidit brawly in fite

the haw-tree



wedding day  -

dressed in glorious white

the hawthorn

Thursday, May 18, 2023

 schuil Mass

...ah hearken

tae the rowin thunner



school Mass

...I hear

the rolling thunder

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

yestreen's pear flourish

flutherin doon  -

fite-heidit granbairns



yesterday's pear blossom

fluttering down  -

white-headed grandchildren

a patch 

o pish-the-beds  -

sum sins sum muins



a patch 

of dandelions  -

some suns some moons

Wednesday, May 03, 2023

sodger's gairden  -

pish-the-bed puff-baws

...caunles fir the deid



soldier's garden  -

dandelion puff-balls

...candles for the dead

coronation day -

abuin the burn

a crans' carnival



coronation day  -

above the stream

a swifts' carnival

Saturday, April 29, 2023

i the busses

a mistaen flourish:

chaffie



in the bushes

a mistaken blossom:

chaffinch


in an oot

o the auld postbox:

blue-bonnets


in and out

of the old postbox:

blue-tits

Saturday, April 22, 2023

ristin bi the waaterside

unner

a blae sauch-paittrened lift



resting by the riverside

under

a blue willow-patterned sky

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

pear flourish  -

...an yon tig o reid

on the petals' lips



pear blossom  -

...and that touch of red

on the petals' lips

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

airlie mornin -

the blinterin licht

o the eesock's breist



early morning  -

the flickering light

of the dippers breast

Monday, April 17, 2023

voar circus  -

tits birl bi  thair neb

on threid-thin sprigs



spring circus  -

tits spin by their beaks

on thread-thin twigs

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

on a cauld mornin

the birsle

o gean treen




on a cold morning

the warmth

of cherry trees

Monday, April 10, 2023

efter the mawin

a hirplin bummer

heidin fir the gairdener



after the mowing

a limping bee

heading for the gardener

Tuesday, April 04, 2023

voar scooryin

tae brust oot  -

magnolia's olympic blinkie



spring racing

to burst out  -

magnolia's olympic torch

Saturday, April 01, 2023

cailleachs' yoga 

on the strand  -

tiggin taes...seiven muins!


old ladies' yoga

on the beach  -

touching toes..seven moons!

shinders

ower the firth

... bodachs daffin it petanque



shooting-stars

over the estuary 

...old men playing petanque



Friday, March 31, 2023

swaws rowin in

fite-cappit

...maws on the strand



waves rolling in

white-capped

...gulls on the shore

Thursday, March 30, 2023

kintra nicht maisic  -

a dug barks, twa dugs bark

thray dugs...



country night music  -

a dog barks, two dogs bark

three dogs..

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

tropical Isle

fantoush farins

...granfaither blaws on's scoatch bree



tropical island

exotic foods

...granddad blows on his his scotch broth


Monday, March 27, 2023

 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 

Thursday, March 23, 2023

swans  -

yin snecks sauch twigs

the ither's baggit shiffle





swans  -

one snips willow twigs

the other's pregnant shuffle

Sunday, March 19, 2023

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

Monday, March 13, 2023

leafless sauchs  -

thair yallaness an oorie

bonnienesss i the weet



leafless willows  -

their yellowness

a strange beauty in the rain

Wednesday, March 08, 2023

echa  -

the lassie quat her sang

i the unnerpass



echo  -

the young girl left her song

in the underpass



Monday, March 06, 2023

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

Saturday, March 04, 2023

fou muin  -

i the gairden bawdrons' een

...yalla sins



full moon  -

In the garden cat's eyes

...yellow suns

Thursday, March 02, 2023

the fush-van

feshes a snowk o the sea

tae the causey



the fish-van

fetches a smell of the sea

to the street

Thursday, February 23, 2023

fluid trock redd  -

the burn

croonin agane



flood debris cleared  -

the stream

singing again

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

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)


Monday, February 20, 2023

voar sin  

a boorach

o daffins



spring sun

a cluster

of daffodils

Thursday, February 16, 2023

her gairden

fou o plastic skwurrels  -

she  fells the rael yins!



her garden

full of plastic squirrels  -

she kills the real ones!




Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Valentine's day  -

twa speuggies 

halfers a fat-baw



Valentine's day  -

two sparrows

share a fat-ball

Monday, February 13, 2023

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





Wednesday, February 08, 2023

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




Tuesday, February 07, 2023

hern

humphed

amang the snawdraps



heron

hunched

among the snowdrops

Thursday, February 02, 2023

swan preenin  -

a bygaun jogger

...her pink pleats



swan preening  -

a passing jogger

...her pink pigtails


Tuesday, January 17, 2023

 swans

doverin on the snaw:




swans

asleep on the snow:





wunter mornin  -

throuch lace hingers

 jeelt brainches



winter morning  -

through lace curtains

 frozen branches


Thursday, January 12, 2023

new neebours  -

thair bawdrons veesits

weirin a reid boo-tie



new neighbours  -

their cat visits

wearing a red bow-tie


Wednesday, January 11, 2023

hogmanay rackets

brustin bricht fir saiconts

...the leal muin



new year fireworks

bursting bright for seconds

...the constant moon

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

alang the plainstanes  -

Yule treen untinselled

heeld on the buckets



along the pavement  -

Christmas trees untinselled

lean on the dustbins

Thursday, January 05, 2023

furst day it schuil  -

mithers

greitin



first day at school  -

mothers

crying

Monday, January 02, 2023

Yule mornin  -

treen ableeze wi sparks

sae perfitly space't


Christmas morning  -

trees ablaze with raindrops

so perfectly spaced

Sunday, January 01, 2023

 2023  -

a new neb waukens

in shut-doon door-cheek



2023  -

a new face wakens

in  a closed-down doorway