http://whiskyinmind.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] whiskyinmind 2005-07-22 10:27 am (UTC)

ooo - see, I like poets rather than specific poems... lemme think.

'kay

Tam O'Shanter - Rabbie Burns (couldn't not have at least one Burns poem in here!)

Your Attention Please - Peter Porter

Wild Geese - Mary Oliver ([livejournal.com profile] nwhepcat recently introduced me to this one and it's pretty resonant with me at the moment)

Do Not Go Gentle - Dylan Thomas

for the fifth, can I include a poem that was written (by Edwin Morgan) as part of a song lyric? If so then "Scottish Fiction" by Edwin Morgan

It isn't in the mirror, it isn'ft on the page
It's a red hearted vibration
Pushing through the walls of dark imagination
Finding no equation
There's a red road rage,
But it's not road rage
It's asylum seekers engulfed by a grudge

Scottish friction, Scottish friction

It isn't in the castle, it isn't in the mist
It's a calling of the waters as they break to show
The new black death with reactors aglow
Do you think your security will keep you in purity
You will not shake us off
Above or below

Scottish friction, Scottish friction

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