brucken-doon snawmen  -

maggies matin

on een an nebs

broken-down snowmen  -

magpies feeding

on eyes and noses

 weengs spreid 

peened tae the fairmer's palin:

craw's petrine corse

wings spread

pinned to the farmer's fence:

crow's petrine cross

 jag day  -

throuch the doacter's winnock

eeshogels dreepin

vaccination day  -

through the doctor's window

icicles dripping

 lockdoon  -

the bairnie dirls

the playgrun's yetts

lockdown  -

the toddler rattles

the playground's  gates

daw's reid licht  -

hemmerin

frae the smiddy

dawn's red light  -

hammering

from the smithy

swan slips

intae the watter

...ryal barque

swan slips

into the river

...royal barque 

freestit playgrun -

myndin the keekin-gless

wrocht wi tacketie buits

frosted playground  -

remembering the mirror

made with hobnailed boots

 the swans it roseburn

keekin throuch the sprots

...aye in lockdoon

the swans at roseburn

peering through the reeds

...still in lockdown

wunter  

in ma aviator bunnet

...the spaniel goves

winter  

in my aviator hat

...the spaniel stares

bucket day  -

gin bottles blink bleart lik

i the daw licht

bin day  -

gin bottles blink blearily

in the dawn light

hameless  -

nae Yule whigmaleeries

bit the merry dancers

homeless  -

no Christmas baubles

but the northern lights

 Yule lichts turnt on  -

yirth yin skinklin

whigmaleerie in space

Christmas lights turned on  -

earth one glittering

bauble in space

 brick throuch

the priest's winnock

...Yule stern

brick through

the priest's window

...Christmas star

err thrabs

as swans win awa

...stoorin cluds

air throbs

as swans leave

...racing clouds

aince mair

Yule lowes i the herth

...poinsettia

again Christmas

flames in the hearth

...poinsettia.

friday clavers

roon the fush-van

...apen-mou'd mackrel

friday gossip

round the fish-van

...open-mouthed mackrel

anely hersel

an the Yule cactus  -

lanely covid blues

only herself

and the Christmas cactus  -

lonely covid blues

i the gairden

maggies line the palin  

...boogie--woogie pianny

in the garden

magpies line the fence  

...boogie-woogie piano

 pumpkin foondert

anely the caunle left

...tae licht anither

pumpkin slumped

only the candle left

...to light another

 aneath hairst treen

plainstanes buskit

in gowd leaf

beneath autumnal trees

pavements adorned

in gold leaf