on the phone

As mentioned earlier; it’s National Poetry Day this coming Thursday 6th October - and as per last year I’m blipping the series of eight cards that the Scottish Poetry Library has produced ...

... I'm posting two each day, through to Wednesday.

And on Thursday 6th, I’ll blip my very favourite poem about this year’s theme: messages.

Here are the next two (as pictured) from Ciara MacLaverty and Alan Spence:


Cracking the Code

When we feed nuts
to the squirrel
at our back door
he seems remarkably clever
to come back for more.
Yet if, after day one,
he failed to come
then squirrels would seem
incredibly dumb.

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Ciara MacLaverty (1968 - )

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it was this big!

it was this big!
the child tells her mother,
on the phone

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Alan Spence (1947 - )

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