It would be best if Scotland was Independent once again.
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Attend upon them still.
But now they drift on the still water,
Mysterious, beautiful;”
W B Yeats (1917)
#photography #swans #golden #water #poem #WBYeats #PotD #reflection #lake #BirdPhotography #nature
Attend upon them still.
But now they drift on the still water,
Mysterious, beautiful;”
W B Yeats (1917)
#photography #swans #golden #water #poem #WBYeats #PotD #reflection #lake #BirdPhotography #nature
Mike Wheeler (Stranger Things)
#photography #sunset #dawn #sky #UpsideDown #clouds #pattern #illusion #PotD #quote #StrangerThings
Mike Wheeler (Stranger Things)
#photography #sunset #dawn #sky #UpsideDown #clouds #pattern #illusion #PotD #quote #StrangerThings
and their collective noun. A skein of geese. This cell
is further away from anywhere I’ve ever been.”
Carol Anne Duffy (1987)
#photography #geese #skein #BirdPhotography #PotD #poem #CarolAnneDuffy #sky #clouds #migration
and their collective noun. A skein of geese. This cell
is further away from anywhere I’ve ever been.”
Carol Anne Duffy (1987)
#photography #geese #skein #BirdPhotography #PotD #poem #CarolAnneDuffy #sky #clouds #migration
And a day that gave its due,
From the mounting sun on the Firth of Forth
To the moon on the Larig Ghru.”
Hilton Brown (mid 1920s)
#photography #FirthOfForth #IsleOfMay #Sunset #Sunrise #golden #poem #HiltonBrown #PotD #Scotland #Fife #Crail
And a day that gave its due,
From the mounting sun on the Firth of Forth
To the moon on the Larig Ghru.”
Hilton Brown (mid 1920s)
#photography #FirthOfForth #IsleOfMay #Sunset #Sunrise #golden #poem #HiltonBrown #PotD #Scotland #Fife #Crail
Whatever road he takes, forest or firth
Or mountain path or moor scratchy with whins,
At the end of the road is the cup brimming with shadows.”
George Mackay Brown (1989)
#photography #PotD #CuillinBrewery #Skye #Poetry #Cuillins #Scotland
Whatever road he takes, forest or firth
Or mountain path or moor scratchy with whins,
At the end of the road is the cup brimming with shadows.”
George Mackay Brown (1989)
#photography #PotD #CuillinBrewery #Skye #Poetry #Cuillins #Scotland
There is no hope, it is given up.”
Sylvia Plath (1962)
#photography #sunset #fire #sky #aflame #silhouette #PotD #poem #poetry #SylviaPlath #clouds #plasma #inferno #skyscape
There is no hope, it is given up.”
Sylvia Plath (1962)
#photography #sunset #fire #sky #aflame #silhouette #PotD #poem #poetry #SylviaPlath #clouds #plasma #inferno #skyscape
Stirs the quicksand; that ropes the blowing wind
Hauls my shroud sail.”
Dylan Thomas (1933)
#photography #FairyPools #Skye #Scotland #WesternIsles #Highlands #Islands #poem #DylanThomas #PotD #waterfall #pool #rocks
Stirs the quicksand; that ropes the blowing wind
Hauls my shroud sail.”
Dylan Thomas (1933)
#photography #FairyPools #Skye #Scotland #WesternIsles #Highlands #Islands #poem #DylanThomas #PotD #waterfall #pool #rocks
slivers of silver in a sea of stone
all that this land had taught us
became unheard of, unbeknown."
Catherine Ayres (2012)
#photography #OldManOfStorr #Skye #Scotland #WesternIsles #poem #CatherineAyres #PotD #LochLeathan #Storr #mist #mountain #peaks
slivers of silver in a sea of stone
all that this land had taught us
became unheard of, unbeknown."
Catherine Ayres (2012)
#photography #OldManOfStorr #Skye #Scotland #WesternIsles #poem #CatherineAyres #PotD #LochLeathan #Storr #mist #mountain #peaks
They may prove well in lecture-rooms, yet not prove at all under the
spacious clouds and along the landscape and flowing currents.”
Walt Whitman (1856)
#photography #sun #clouds #sky #landscape #poem #WaltWhitman #skyscape #PotD #sunset #silhouette
They may prove well in lecture-rooms, yet not prove at all under the
spacious clouds and along the landscape and flowing currents.”
Walt Whitman (1856)
#photography #sun #clouds #sky #landscape #poem #WaltWhitman #skyscape #PotD #sunset #silhouette
Horns on his head and they weren't too short.
It looked like there wasn't nothin' that he couldn't pull.
"Ah, think I'll call it a bull."
Bob Dylan (1979)
#photography #HighlandCattle #horns #PotD #lyrics #BobDylan #Waternish #Skye #Scotland #bull #cliff
Horns on his head and they weren't too short.
It looked like there wasn't nothin' that he couldn't pull.
"Ah, think I'll call it a bull."
Bob Dylan (1979)
#photography #HighlandCattle #horns #PotD #lyrics #BobDylan #Waternish #Skye #Scotland #bull #cliff
And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”
Mary Oliver (2006)
#photography #PatelyBridge #PotD #trees #sunlight #shadow #light #poetry #MaryOliver #cross
And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”
Mary Oliver (2006)
#photography #PatelyBridge #PotD #trees #sunlight #shadow #light #poetry #MaryOliver #cross
This winter when the gales battled each roof and window
He was blown out and into the wind.”
Kenneth Steven (1995)
#photography #IsleOfIona #Iona #Gaelic #IonaAbbey #Abbey #poem #Steven #Scotland #WesternIsles #Mull #PotD
This winter when the gales battled each roof and window
He was blown out and into the wind.”
Kenneth Steven (1995)
#photography #IsleOfIona #Iona #Gaelic #IonaAbbey #Abbey #poem #Steven #Scotland #WesternIsles #Mull #PotD
Far distant, when, as legends say,
The Monks of Fountain’s thronged to force
From its dear home the Hermit’s corse,
That in their keeping it might lie,
To crown their abbey’s sanctity.”
William Wordsworth (1814)
#photography #PotD #FountainsAbbey #Poem #monks
Far distant, when, as legends say,
The Monks of Fountain’s thronged to force
From its dear home the Hermit’s corse,
That in their keeping it might lie,
To crown their abbey’s sanctity.”
William Wordsworth (1814)
#photography #PotD #FountainsAbbey #Poem #monks
Mountains menace my life,
But on either hand, let down
From U-valleys like yarn,
Waterfalls all the way
Quietly encourage me on.”
W H Auden (1940)
#photography #waterfalls #MagicGrotto #FairyPools #Skye #Scotland #WesternIsles #Poetry #WHAuden #poem #PotD
Mountains menace my life,
But on either hand, let down
From U-valleys like yarn,
Waterfalls all the way
Quietly encourage me on.”
W H Auden (1940)
#photography #waterfalls #MagicGrotto #FairyPools #Skye #Scotland #WesternIsles #Poetry #WHAuden #poem #PotD
to write
a ‘great’ poem,
big as the Cuillins.”
Iain Crichton Smith (1969)
#photography #Cuillins #mountains #Skye #Scotland #WesternIsles #peaks #rugged #ranges #poetry #IainCrichtonSmith #poem #Highlands #islands
to write
a ‘great’ poem,
big as the Cuillins.”
Iain Crichton Smith (1969)
#photography #Cuillins #mountains #Skye #Scotland #WesternIsles #peaks #rugged #ranges #poetry #IainCrichtonSmith #poem #Highlands #islands
again and again some god of evening leans out of it
and shares being with me, silkily
all of twilight.”
D H Lawrence (1916)
#photography #sunset #gold #fiery #clouds #poetry #DHLawrence #PotD
again and again some god of evening leans out of it
and shares being with me, silkily
all of twilight.”
D H Lawrence (1916)
#photography #sunset #gold #fiery #clouds #poetry #DHLawrence #PotD
As he stood there all alone;
Cried: ‘Are you in Heaven, Father?’
But the sky said ‘Address not known’.”
W H Auden (1937)
#photography #sunset #sea #reflection #clouds #poetry #WHAuden #PotD
As he stood there all alone;
Cried: ‘Are you in Heaven, Father?’
But the sky said ‘Address not known’.”
W H Auden (1937)
#photography #sunset #sea #reflection #clouds #poetry #WHAuden #PotD
Or naething else to trouble thee,
But stray amang the heather-bells
And tent the waving corn wi’ me.”
Robert Burns (1793)
#photography #heather #BellHeather #PotD #poetry #RobertBurns #Scotland #nature #NaturePhotography #plants
Or naething else to trouble thee,
But stray amang the heather-bells
And tent the waving corn wi’ me.”
Robert Burns (1793)
#photography #heather #BellHeather #PotD #poetry #RobertBurns #Scotland #nature #NaturePhotography #plants
Kill Time! She turns in her pain!
The oak is felled in the acorn
And the hawk in the egg kills the wren.”
Dylan Thomas (1941)
#photography #acorns #oak #leaves #PotD #nature #Autumn #Macro #NaturePhotography #poetry #DylanThomas
Kill Time! She turns in her pain!
The oak is felled in the acorn
And the hawk in the egg kills the wren.”
Dylan Thomas (1941)
#photography #acorns #oak #leaves #PotD #nature #Autumn #Macro #NaturePhotography #poetry #DylanThomas
to be solved. She knew a snip to the heart
would be permanent and, with one ring
removed, the remaining two would float
as they do, side by side, catches released,
fundamental products of the unknot.”
Jen Karetnick (2018)
#PotD #math #rings #tantrix #knots
is your tongue.
Then a butterfly paused on a trembling
leaf is your breath.
Then the gauzy mist relaxed on the ground
is your pose.”
Carol Ann Duffy (2005)
#photography #butterfly #OwlButterfly #Caligo #nature #Macro #PotD #poetry #Duffy #eyespot
is your tongue.
Then a butterfly paused on a trembling
leaf is your breath.
Then the gauzy mist relaxed on the ground
is your pose.”
Carol Ann Duffy (2005)
#photography #butterfly #OwlButterfly #Caligo #nature #Macro #PotD #poetry #Duffy #eyespot
Beyond the rainbow
Why, oh why can't I?"
Arlen & Harburg (1938)
#photography #rainbow #PotD #Lyrics #OverTheRainbow #silhouette #bird #dot
Beyond the rainbow
Why, oh why can't I?"
Arlen & Harburg (1938)
#photography #rainbow #PotD #Lyrics #OverTheRainbow #silhouette #bird #dot
With it clearly carved upon:
"I's a long time a-comin',
An' I'll be a long time gone”.”
Bob Dylan (1963)
#photography #gravestone #graveyard #headstone #grave #lyrics #poetry #BobDylan #sunlight #shadows #trees #PotD
With it clearly carved upon:
"I's a long time a-comin',
An' I'll be a long time gone”.”
Bob Dylan (1963)
#photography #gravestone #graveyard #headstone #grave #lyrics #poetry #BobDylan #sunlight #shadows #trees #PotD
Fence me round on either hand;
Through that forest of dead words
I would hunt the living birds”
Louis MacNeice (1936)
#photography #books #shelves #bookshop #PotD #poetry #MacNeice #BarterBooks #Alnwick #literature
Fence me round on either hand;
Through that forest of dead words
I would hunt the living birds”
Louis MacNeice (1936)
#photography #books #shelves #bookshop #PotD #poetry #MacNeice #BarterBooks #Alnwick #literature