http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: poetry - Recent Topics en Wed, 13 May 2026 02:17:03 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169#post-261499 Sun, 24 Sep 2017 19:30:59 +0000 unhurt 261499@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Share poetry you've read that made you feel things. (You may or may not choose to say what those things were.) </p> <p>Most everything by Robin Robertson is good, but this in particular wrenches something inside - but beautifully:</p> <p>CRIMOND</p> <p><em>i.m. Jessie Seymour Irvine</em></p> <p>Daughter of the manse of Dunnottar, then Peterhead<br /> and Crimond, all north-eastern edges over unstill waters,<br /> what softness brought this tune from your young hands?<br /> The tune my father called for every Sunday: the 23rd psalm.<br /> When I hear it now, it's all wet cobbles and the haar<br /> rolling in down the street outside, and him<br /> shaking their hands, sharp in his black and white:<br /> the dog-collar (I knew) cut clean from a bottle of Fairy Liquid.<br /> How far we all are from where we thought we'd be:<br /> those parishioners all vanished long ago; my father – ash<br /> above the crematorium; me, swimming back-crawl<br /> through the valley of the shadow of death, and you –<br /> not even a photograph left of you – the girl who will never<br /> touch again the foot of the cross at Crimond. </p> <p>- Robin Robertson </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1291#post-11809 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:32:44 +0000 Smudge 11809@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I too have a car,<br /> I am not queueing,<br /> you are."</p> <p>With apologies to all the "proper" Haiku poets out there ;-) </p>