John McDonald
Living in Edinburgh, Scotland
http://zenspeug.blogspot.com
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Zen Speug 2014
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snell wund -
throuch the causeys
a joogler jooglin gullies
bitter wind -
through the streets
a juggler juggling knives
Fume O Peat Reek (Hub Editions)
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sundoon -
she rugs a reid threid
throuch her flooerin
sunset -
she draws a red thread
through her embroidery
Fume O Peat Reek (Hub Editions)
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aw day
the yin butterie
fouin the gairden
all day
the one butterfly
filling the garden
Fume O Peat Reek (Hub Editions)
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hauf-tyme baund -
yin chiel sheds himsel
wi a cymbal
half-time band -
one musician shades himself
with a cymbal
Tuin Tin Tassie (Hub Editions)
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ower tottie
tae win tae thair chapper
he daffs alane
too tiny
to reach their doorbell
he plays alone
Tuim Tin Tassie (Hub Editions)
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yill bottle taps skailt -
he hunkers
refleckin on the Galaxy
beer bottle tops scattered -
he sits
musing on the Galaxy
The Throu-Gaun Chiel (cyberwit)
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in a seelent vennel
a maw skirls
swallaein the jeelin wund
in a silent alley
a gull screams
swallowing the icy wind
The Throu-Gaun Chiel (cyberwit)
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coortin kipple
a coffee atween thaim -
stame heavin
young lovers
a coffee between them -
steam rising
The Throu-Gaun Chiel (cyberwit)
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freesty mornin -
oot frae a jaur
the rizzard lavender's blae braith
frosty morning -
out from a jar
the dried lavender's blue breath
The Throu-Gaun Chiel (cyberwit)
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anither yirdin -
sin blinters on the spaiks
o a birlin trinnle
another funeral -
sun glitters on the spokes
of a turning wheel
The Throu-Gaun Chiel (cyberwit)
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i the bombed kirk
a bairn
...skailt chalice
in the bombed church
a child
...spilt chalice
zenspeug
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awthing
rowed in sinlicht -
naethin unforgien
everything
wrapped in sunlight -
nothing unforgiven
Sommergras Sept 2012
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bairn doverin
in a sinblink:
hapt in licht years
baby asleep
in a sunbeam:
wrapped in light years
Taj Mahal Review vol12 no2
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wi's razzor
he pynts tae the fou muin -
his sowpied neb
with his razor
he points to the full moon -
his lathered face
Taj Mahal Review vol 9 no. 2
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immigration:
the bairn's derk fingers
kinchin's mither's herr
immigration:
the child's dark fingers
knotting his mother's hair
Kamesan's World haiku anthology
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monks
cleedit in fite
pensefu caunles
Taj Mahal Review vol 10 no 2
monks
dressed in white
wistful candles
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roon the wa's
faimilie photies
takkin tent o's deein
Taj Mahal Review vol 12 no 2
round the walls
family photographs
watching him die
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fou muin -
on the cunyie
a hooer's paewae neb
Taj Mahal Review vol 12 no 2
full moon -
on the corner
a prostitute's pale face
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sterns
cuilin aff
i the het bowie
Taj Mahal Review vol 12 no 2
stars
cooling off
in the hot tub
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linn -
throuch a pearl's rouk
the bodach skews
Taj Mahal Review vol 10 no 1
waterfall -
through a cataract's mist
the old man squints
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dementia -
he hunkers i the mids
o a skailt jeegsaw
Taj Mahal Review vol 8 no 2
dementia -
he sits in the midst
of a scattered jigsaw
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waddin day -
a butterie fidderin
throuch thair sheddaes' herts
Taj Mahal Review vol 9 no 2
wedding day -
a butterfly fluttering
through their shadows' hearts
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midnicht express
pewlin
...teuk a fere tae heiven
Taj Mahal Review vol 11 no 1
midnight express -
wailing
...took a friend to heaven
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oor luvin...
mellin wi burdsang
at keek-o-day
Taj Mahal Review vol 11 no 1
our loving...
mixing
with the dawn chorus
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hoaspice veesitin oor -
agane
the wappin beds
Harvests of new millenium vol 3 no 1
hospice visiting hour -
again
the enormous beds
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echain
throuch the cosmos:
brattles shentin us
Harvest of New Millenium vol 12 no1
echoing
through the cosmos:
gunfire shaming us
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trauchlin hame -
derk muins o's crummock
i the snaw
Harvests of New Millenium vol l5 no 1
trudging home -
dark moons of his walking stick
in the snow
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perishin kirk -
frae the meenister's mou
ghaists o Yules bygane
Harvest of New Millenium vol 6 no1
freezing church -
from the minister's mouth
ghosts of Christmasses past
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it sterts tae snaw -
the blin musicianer
leuks upwarts
Harvests of New Millenium vol 2 no 1
it starts to snow -
the blind musician
looks upwards
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the bairn
bletherin tae me -
brawer nor wurds
Harvest of New Millenium vo 6 no1
the baby
chatting to me -
better than words
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dementia
tentie o the butterie
...skeerie lik
dementia
he watches the butterfly
...fearfully
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voar ferr -
pipes seelent
weet paradeedles
spring fair -
bagpipes silent
rain paradiddles
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anither bluid test
...traipsin the lang reid rod
o hairst
another blood test
...trudging the long red road
of autumn
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furst burthday -
balloons,gulshichs,
an time's smirkin mou
first birthday -
balloons,cakes,
and time's grinning maw
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Donegal mornin -
yin lum
reekless
Donegal morning -
one chimney
smokeless
(for Seamus Heaney)
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the stag
gralloched -
its croun o jaggies
the stag
hung to bleed -
its crown of thorns
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swaws rattlin -
spairge
o brucken wattergaws
waves crashing -
spray
of broken rainbows
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maws fecht ower the bucket
...hameless
he squerrs's shouthers
gulls fight over the dustbin
...homeless
he squares his shoulders
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wab
fingerprentin
the harr
web
fingerprinting
the mist
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stour o's shock
ower -
a stilt yirdin'm
storm of his stroke
over -
a crutch earthing him
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oot frae's mools
ugsome thrissels:
mools o the torterer
out from his grave
horrendous thistles:
grave of the torturer
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autistic laddie
faw'n ower
cartoons jig on's neb
autistic boy
fallen asleep
cartoons dance on his face
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brod set
wytein the veesitors
e'en the speens hearkenin
table set
awaiting the visitors
even the spoons listening
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the bodach
hirples alang -
bonnie kirstals growe in's bluid
the old man
hobbles along -
beautiful crystals grow in his blood
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auld freen -
oxterin'm
oor banes bairge
old friend -
embracing him
our bones collide
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she wins awa...
brakkin the threids
o a wab
she leaves...
breaking the threads
of a web
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a scrieve hame
desert stoor
slairt
a letter home
desert dust
smudging
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wund amang the sprots
the cailleach
tellin'r beads
wind among the reeds -
the old lady
telling her beads
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festival's en -
a lane pipie stauns
sax inch frae the muin
festival's end -
a lone piper stands
six inches from the moon
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nicht soonds
fauldit inby
the auld saxyphone
night sounds
at rest inside
the old saxophone
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peat lowe -
we hunker, threy glowein nebs
goavin at a fowert
peat fire -
we sit, three glowing faces
gazing at a fourth
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potter's hauns
wrochtin the tuimness
o's blae joogs
potter's hands
shaping the emptiness
of his blue jugs
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blowster -
'guid mornin' smirk
blawn awa
Gale -
'good morning' smile
blown away
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the muezzin crys -
awbody taks on
the set o incaain
the muezzin calls -
everybody assumes
the shape of prayer
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dryin nets -
maws drift athort
... a slaw gemme o chess
drying nets -
gulls drift across
... a slow game of chess
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lang vaig -
she wyyves the miles intae
a granbairn's shawlie
long journey -
she crochets the miles into
a grandchild's shawl
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the auld scuil steekit -
anely the bummers
murmellin a lesson
the old school closed -
only the bees
murmuring a lesson
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tick tock...
the bombed bairn
pendles on's stilts
tick tock...
the bombed child
pendulums on his crutches
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armistice day -
the reid maple
liggs its wreath
armistice day -
the red maple
lays its wreath
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swans gaither
...bit the day the bodach
maits the wirms
swans gather
...but today the old man
feeds the worms
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