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Today, 28 February, is Scottish Archives Day. Here’s Edwin Morgan’s poem “Archives”, published in Centenary Selected Poems (Carcanet 2020)

Orphean sprig! Melting baby! Warm chihuahua!
The vale of tears is powerless before you.
Whether Christ is born, or is not born, you
put paid to fate, it abdicates
under the Christmas lights…

—Edwin Morgan, “Trio”
Centenary Selected Poems, Carcanet 2020
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/trio/

Rubbing a glistening circle
on the steamed-up window I framed
a pheasant in a field of mist…

—Edwin Morgan, “Aberdeen Train”
Centenary Selected Poems, Carcanet 2020

Today, 13 January, is the Feast Day of St Mungo (AKA St Kentigern), patron saint of Glasgow.

“Colloquy in Glaschu” by Edwin Morgan imagines a conversation between St Mungo & St Columba
Published in Centenary Selected Poems, Carcanet 2020
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The Computer’s First Christmas Card by Edwin Morgan, published in 1968. Could've come directly mangled from ChatGPT today. Also, published in a collection of poems called The Second Life. All eerily prescient. www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/compute...

I’m out here now
on the roof. Look!
I had to get nearer the sky,
For the city was too full of rooms
And I can’t be content with a window…

—Margaret Tait, “A Poem for a Morning”
Published in Margaret Tait: poems, stories and writings (Carcanet, 2012)
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/poem-mo...

What did the pirate say on his 80th birthday?

Aye’m Eighty 🏴‍☠️

The poem was not written for celebrity.

The poem was written in relationship.

#OnThisDay for #LongBuckbyWharf
Edwin Frederick Moss was born at Whilton, 25 Jan 1889. Son of Sarah Pollard & Edwin Moss.
Edwin was at the Wharf by 1901 & was a clerk for a boot factory.
1913 he married Gertie Chapman & had 2 children, then served in WW1.
Edwin died 1958.
#OnePlaceStudies
#Genealogy

A poem for Human Rights Day: “Being a Human Being”, by Tom Leonard

First published in PN Review 32 (2005), & written for the installation of Mordechai Vanunu as rector of the University of Glasgow in April 2005

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/being-h...

one of my favorite silly jokes for Silly Joke Saturday

what did the pirates say on his 80th birthday?

“I’m eighty”

Miley Crisis ✨ @boubayaga.bsky.social

It's silly joke Saturday

So a dentist asks her patient the last time he flossed, the patient replies "don't you remember? You were there! "

02 March

In 2022, "Poem Written in the Eight Seconds I Lost Sight of My Children" (Orange Blossom Review) was selected as a finalist for BOTN (yay!). TY to the wonderful team at @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social, a beautiful new longform journal, for publishing Part II today." lastsyllablelit.com/poem-written...

A poem for Twelfth Night by John Greening. From his sequence “Yule”, written in memory of his father (from THE HOME KEY, 2003).

jollymerry
hollyberry
jollyberry
merryholly
happyjolly
jollyjelly
jellybelly
bellymerry
hollyheppy
jollyMolly
marryJerry
merryHarry
happyBarry
heppyJarry
bobbyheppy
berryjorry…

“The Computer’s First Christmas Card”
Edwin Morgan
THE SECOND LIFE (1968)
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/compute...

“The Computer’s First Christmas Card” by visionary Scottish poet Edwin Morgan (1920 - 2010)

Published in the 1968 Cybernetic Serendipity catalogue

Today for school, I read the poem, "O Captain, My Captain," to the kiddos. Also learned today that it was written for the death of Abraham Lincoln. It's a moving poem, to say the least. I guess I got really into it, because my 10-year-old had tears in his eyes afterward...

A poem for Jack Kerouac on the occasion of his birthday, 102 years old today!

lampoetry.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-...

Push the boat out

Drafted a poem for the first time in probably a year as I was thinking about my birthday.

A Poem for Easter Sunday. This poem is taken from ‘Corridors & Wards’, a suite of poems written while my mum was in hospital. You can read the whole suite here: www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/corrido...

This is the first poem in this anthology of 100 poems for which Fujiwara no Teika, its 13th-century compiler, uses a composition by a member from his own Fujiwara family, namely the nobleman Toshiyuki. The poem, written for a poetry competition, is from a woman’s perspective who is fearful...
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All our lives, in every city,
out of every landscape
the waters of the Alhambra
have been murmuring to us…

Imtiaz Dharker, “Women Bathing”
Published in The Terrorist At My Table, Bloodaxe Books 2006

A #poem for #InternationalWomensDay
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/women-b...

And now you've read the worst poem ever written or at least the worst poem I've ever written.

I have a new poem out with Boats Against the Current mag! My first ekphrastic poem, it was written in a wonderful sonnet workshop taught by @ctsalazar.bsky.social for @bellepointpress.bsky.social.

boatsagainstthecurrent.org/poetry/poor-...