by Robert Carson | Oct 27, 2016 | Poetry
The Isle of Skye awaits your coming The tides of Portree Bay are turning. When you alight upon the shore A welcome’s there at every door. The coronach of seagulls in the bay The pipes that for those lost souls play. The corries where the wild flowers grow The River...
by Robert Carson | Oct 27, 2016 | Poetry
The aspect of the sky was grey And cast its gloom upon the day. However light of heart the mood The mountains silent, brooding stood. Derwent Island in quiet seclusion sits The mists deceive the eye with tricks. A spectral presence on Cat Bells The lonely traveller...
by Robert Carson | Oct 24, 2016 | Poetry
That unfathomable love you feel for me Is deeper than the Ocean’s sea And every leaf, of every tree Will speak of all you mean to me. And though the moon may shift the tide We’ll be for ever side by side. As the roses, and the willow, grow The rivers ever onward flow...
by Robert Carson | Oct 24, 2016 | Poetry
When winter tightens in its hold The trees cast off their leaves of gold Where few in idle reverie go The Dandy Line’s adrift with snow. Beneath the star-illumined sky Who’ll hear the rabbit’s stricken cry? In the distance, a train is heard The frost entraps a...
by Robert Carson | Oct 17, 2016 | Poetry
Wild-bramble, thistle, proud harebell The gnarled tree high upon the fell. The shadow-darkened wood and path The sunlit-dappled gorse and grass. With lightened heart the mind transcends The road that winds. and twists, and bends. Amid an early-morning haze The sheep...
