drien snaw  -

ilka tree

a siller birk

driven snow  -

every tree

a silver birch

wund throuch

faw'n leaves

...pattrenmakar

wind through

the fallen leaves

...patternmaker

peerie skwurrel

bussie-tailed  -

soopin the leaves

little squirrel

bushy-tailed  -

sweeping the leaves

alang the fuitpeth

Reid Rab daffs it

claucht-me-gin-ye-can

along the footpath

the robin plays

catch-me-if-you-can

aneath the sauchs

in emerant watter  -

the hern

beneath the willows

in green water  -

the heron

armistice day paraud  -

on the tree

a hinmaist pickle leaves

armistice day parade  -

on the tree

a last few leaves

skifflin throuch leaves  -

hairst

fir the bodach an the aik

shuffling through leaves  -

autumn

for the old man and the oak

day-daw  -

burdsang

an craw scrunchin's gears

dawn  -

birdsong

and crow crunching his gears

blowster ower  -

the maple tree's

bleck skelet

storm over  -

the maple tree's

black skeleton

craw an saw-neb

haudin thair distance  -

sowpin frae the samen burn

crow and goosander

keeping their distance  -

drinking from the same stream

ootgoavin ilk ither

hern an me

...till he wuns!

outstaring each other

heron and I

...until he wins!

efter bonfire nicht

daw's reid lift

...greeshoch

after bonfire night

dawn's red sky

...embers

hairst leaves  -

the boolin green

a bricht orange

autumn leaves  -

the bowling green

a bright orange

wast wund

shooglin the leaves

...prayer flags

west wind

shaking the leaves

...prayer flags

(For Gaza)

monks 

see tae thair sinflooers

... thair tonsured heids

monks

tend their sunflowers

... their tonsured heads