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Machair Poems - Poems about Machair


Premium Member Luskentyre Shores
Bedazzled am I, dancing to ancient rhythms on western windblown shores where drifts of machair colours this wearied soul restores....

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Categories: machair, beach, color, dance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No Bougainvillea Here
No bougainvillea here, Wind and wave-tossed shores Know no such blossom. What blooms next stormy seas In western outposts far removed, Unknown to sun-soft living ? When silken purple drapes The open sky, and folds of grey And pastel blue hang mingled, Dark-mirrored in the land below, The daily reckoning may be heard, Another storm from off the ocean, Or might the sombre grey dissolve, Transformed with silvered...

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Categories: machair, nature, spring, western,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Corncrake
From deep within encroaching night, there sounds a solitary corncrake in the gloom. His rasping never ending call surrounds and echoes far beneath a cloudy moon. A very private bird, he still must tell the world at large of how he seeks a mate to woo and win and then with her to dwell in this his covert place inviolate. Flag irises...

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Categories: machair, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Machair
Again the machair blooms. Again these wild Atlantic shorelines, battered but unbowed as the marram grass, survive the wayward blasts of winter, the silver sands endowed with dancing colour, greeting the splendour of the budding year. A close bound repertoire of nodding harebells, celandines and thrift, clover, thyme and tiny eyebright, near and far, a sweeping backdrop to the wave-washed shore. Sea...

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Categories: machair, celebration, change, flower, seasons,
Form: Blank verse
Machair
Where salt air, sand and soil meet; A breeze of seasons sung a day. Life grows to pass beneath your feet; ...

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Categories: machair, absence, community, death of
Form: Couplet




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