Images: colour and monochrome. Text: English and/or Scots.
I look but she has pushed her gazebeyond the glass and so, it seems,there will be no surrender climbingout from either plated heart. That afternoon we’d gone amongthe grass that sweeps around the lakeand talked of this and that, but nowshe points her eyes at walls and fences.
The cute little Cyclopssquatting on what in olden timeshad been a hilltop bare.A whitewashed bungalow,excreting safety,makes a blind link in thelong chain of a legendof happiness, keptwarm in boxes. Itsbiggest bedroom liesbehind the cosy dormerwhere curtains, without warning,are drawn, and the two of usare heading apart once more.
Working overtimeat this time of year;obediently receivingdiscarded cheer.
These leaves belong to a different tree?The wrong gale sticking to theWrong road, right along to a spotYou’d forget was ever there.Nature does not shudderAt how such odds and ends,Brown from this blue planet, neverGrew off any branch round here.So, come in close to the foot of the tree,And pay no heedTo the top of … Continue reading These Leaves Belong to a Different Tree?
Scaffolding is crawling all over the library.Granite defiant in the face of indignityAnd helpless inconvenience. So muchTrapped inside, but this is allFor its own benefit and the goodOf those who love it and thoseWho don’t but who must, nonetheless, workHard to make it better. Perhaps,However, the old grey dear willEventually grow on the latterLike pine … Continue reading Renovation
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Airtin fur the heich gate.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:No its leesome lane.
… on the Empire Exhibition Monument in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. The Exhibition took place in 1938, and featured, among many other attractions, the pavilions of Canada, Southern Rhodesia and Scotland. The granite memorial in the photograph, along with the Peace Cairn and the Palace of Art, are the only remnants in the park of one … Continue reading The Sun Sets …
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Theirsels twa?
The Scots language/the Scots leid:The throu-gaun.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:A wee mindin.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Somewey ower the saun.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Auld lang syne.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Nivver a forlaithie o caum.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Whan the wuids hes the richt en o the tree.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Reid cairpet fur awbodie i the pairk.
From Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Micht as weel lint.
And the River Kelvin.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Yella yett, yella lines.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Sinflauchts.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Kinna speelin.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Forenent forrit an ayont.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Steeples i the smirr.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:The kirk.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:A kinna roon biggin.
The pub is a hundred yards distant.The Scots language/the Scots leid:The howf is a hunner yaird o gate.
As far away as wherever he’s going.The Scots language/the Scots leid:As faur agate as whaurivver he’s gaun.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Forenicht railwey.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Follae the leader-aff.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Fit fur fit.
The Scots language/the Scots leid;Hir gutcher an his dug.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Heich flets an trees.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Trudder mang the trees.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:A saicretlike gairden.
Gregor MacMinto 