rin -doon pairt o toon  -

e'en the rodden berries

ur stoorie

run-down part of town  -

even the rowan berries

are dusty

unner the gizzent leaves

the butterie hunkers 

in a tuim burd bath

under the shrivelled leaves

the butterfly sits

in an empty bird bath

haitwave  -

the bodach an the flooers

wultin

heatwave  -

the old man and the flowers

wilting

this year

the flooers stound

fir a bummer's pree

this year

the flowers ache

for a bee's kiss

craw hunkers wi me  -

a fusper tae'm

whiles he nid-nods

crow sits with me  -

I whisper to him

sometimes he nods

Gaza  - whaur the warl 

daffs it jack straws

wi bairns' banes

Gaza  -  where the world

plays Jack straws

with chldrens' bones

blithe rackets  -

the bodach dwams o hame

...whaur bombs faw

festive fireworks  -

the old man dreams of home

,..where bombs fall

hunkert

on her ain wee warl  

...butterie an aipple

sitting 

on her own little world

...butterfly and apple

tree sneddin  -

fundin a 'Pace hunt'

the bairns misst...deleecious!

tree trimming  -

finding an 'Easter hunt'

the children missed...delicious!

hou tyme hauds by  -

the thrissels

ur fite heidit

how time passes by  -

the thistles

are white headed

fooneral Mass  -

sumyin sumwhaur 

sneds girss

funeral Mass  -

someone somewhere 

cuts grass

bleckie

in an oot o the buss

...fume o jasmine

blackbird

in and out of the bush

...perfume of jasmine

wunnerfou burdsang  -

file the kailwirm

plays the box

wonderful birdsong  -

while the caterpillar

plays the accordion 

the pace  -

hern's

meditation chaumer

the peace  -

heron's 

meditation retreat

efter the weet

dreeps

...bedside monitor

after the rain

drips

...bedside monitor

tod doverin agane

mid his sipper

...chookie fedders

fox asleep again

midst his supper

...chicken feathers

 duntin nebs

 bummer an me  -

snowkin the buddleia

bumping noses

bee and I  -

smelling the buddleia

frae a mait o nettles

this wunner:

paycock butterie

from a diet of nettles

this wonder:

peacock butterfly

creepin jenny

apen mou'd  -

cabbitch fites flee oot

bindweed

open mouthed  -

cabbage whites fly out

unner a leafy umberellae

a bleckie

croonin i the weet

under a leafy umbrella

a blackbird

singing in the rain