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[?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
@scotlit@mastodon.scot

I love all films that start with rain:
rain, braiding a windowpane
or darkening a hung-out dress
or streaming down her upturned face;

one big thundering downpour
right through the empty script and score
before the act, before the blame,
before the lens pulls through the frame…

—Don Paterson, “Rain”
Published in RAIN (Faber, 2010)

5–6 September is National Cinema Weekend 🎥🎬🍿

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Don Paterson
Rain

I love all films that start with rain:
rain, braiding a windowpane
or darkening a hung-out dress
or streaming down her upturned face;

one big thundering downpour
right through the empty script and score
before the act, before the blame,
before the lens pulls through the frame

to where the woman sits alone
beside a silent telephone
or the dress lies ruined on the grass
or the girl walks off the overpass,

and all things flow out from that source
along their fatal watercourse.
However bad or overlong
such a film can do no wrong,

so when his native twang shows through
or when the boom dips into view
or when her speech starts to betray
its adaptation from a play,

I think to when we opened cold
on a starlit gutter, running gold
with the neon of a drugstore sign
and I’d read into its blazing line:

forget the ink, the milk, the blood –
all was washed clean with the flood
we rose up from the falling waters
the fallen rain’s own sons and daughters

and none of this, none of this matters.

Alt...Don Paterson Rain I love all films that start with rain: rain, braiding a windowpane or darkening a hung-out dress or streaming down her upturned face; one big thundering downpour right through the empty script and score before the act, before the blame, before the lens pulls through the frame to where the woman sits alone beside a silent telephone or the dress lies ruined on the grass or the girl walks off the overpass, and all things flow out from that source along their fatal watercourse. However bad or overlong such a film can do no wrong, so when his native twang shows through or when the boom dips into view or when her speech starts to betray its adaptation from a play, I think to when we opened cold on a starlit gutter, running gold with the neon of a drugstore sign and I’d read into its blazing line: forget the ink, the milk, the blood – all was washed clean with the flood we rose up from the falling waters the fallen rain’s own sons and daughters and none of this, none of this matters.

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    [?]Owlsight » 🌐
    @owlsight@mastodon.social

    Crows fill the tall tree
    Safety in numbers by night
    Preparing at dusk

    Prompt ~ Dusk

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      [?]AI6YR Ben » 🌐
      @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

      Let's see... can I do this without backspace and delete, lol.

      A poem composed on
a free typewriter

How many words can words appear
on a printed page?
Way too many I fear
In the computer age.

And who bother penning
their own rhyme
If the computers
Can do it in half the time

It's too hard, I'm no good
The youth they do exclaim
The hard way is the right way
That is what I explain.

      Alt...A poem composed on a free typewriter How many words can words appear on a printed page? Way too many I fear In the computer age. And who bother penning their own rhyme If the computers Can do it in half the time It's too hard, I'm no good The youth they do exclaim The hard way is the right way That is what I explain.

        [?]Ashwin Dixit » 🌐
        @ashwin@defcon.social

        Inside me are two wolves,
        and they both wear black hats,
        and a stochastic parrot,
        a rabbit, and some cats.

        Photo of Ashwin Dixit, in a park, wearing a black hat with a flashlight mounted on the forehead. He is smiling, has a silver beard, and a curly mustache.

        Alt...Photo of Ashwin Dixit, in a park, wearing a black hat with a flashlight mounted on the forehead. He is smiling, has a silver beard, and a curly mustache.

        Photo of Ashwin Dixit indoors. He is wearing a black hat with a flashlight mounted on the forehead. He has a silver beard and a curly mustache, and an intense expression.

        Alt...Photo of Ashwin Dixit indoors. He is wearing a black hat with a flashlight mounted on the forehead. He has a silver beard and a curly mustache, and an intense expression.

          [?]Raze [OCTADE] » 🌐
          @8@star.octade.net

          Keyboard Lord

          I am lord
          of my keyboard.
          A keyboard lord
          is like a budget
          radio Rambo.
          Instead of
          pulling the trigger
          I toggle keys.
          I take aim
          with my mouse
          and fire a missive.
          Instead of cutting
          with survival knife
          I wound with words.
          My grand hand
          raps like a rooster
          pecking the eyes out
          of little letters;
          pecking patches
          of shadowy serifs.

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            @kentpitman@climatejustice.social

            [?]FreshOutMag » 🌐
            @freshoutmag@mastodon.social

            Collaborative by Stephanie Zepherelli (IG: @bellaboopalombo - ), and Carol Rudall ( ). A California native and a former dance professor, Stephanie Zepherelli has been living on Oahu the past 40 years. She has a drawer full of mismatched spoons, and a tribe of Madagascar geckos.

            In this collaborative #shahai by Stephanie Zepherelli @bellaboopalombo ( #poem ), and Carol Rudall ( #photo ), boot prints are seen in beach sand, the imprint of what is likely a cane, accompanying. The prints proceed in one direction (from the bottom of the frame toward the top) and then seem to turn and head back the other way. The accompanying #haiku reads,   turning heel              too many footnotes                               on a love letter   A California native and a former dance professor, Stephanie Zepherelli has been living on Oahu the past 40 years. She has a drawer full of mismatched spoons, and a tribe of Madagascar geckos. #oahu

            Alt...In this collaborative #shahai by Stephanie Zepherelli @bellaboopalombo ( #poem ), and Carol Rudall ( #photo ), boot prints are seen in beach sand, the imprint of what is likely a cane, accompanying. The prints proceed in one direction (from the bottom of the frame toward the top) and then seem to turn and head back the other way. The accompanying #haiku reads, turning heel too many footnotes on a love letter A California native and a former dance professor, Stephanie Zepherelli has been living on Oahu the past 40 years. She has a drawer full of mismatched spoons, and a tribe of Madagascar geckos. #oahu

              [?]Speckled Band » 🌐
              @speckledband@ravenation.club

              The title is taken from TS Eliot’s The Waste Land - and he took it from The Tempest by Shakespeare …

              I remember
              Those are pearls that were his eyes.
              “Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?”

              (From The Waste Land)

                [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                I like seeing nurse frieda knitting
                as I like watching my wife knitting
                as I liked watching my mother knitting
                though she was more of a dabber
                (plain and purl, plain and purl)…

                —Tom Leonard, “in hospital”
                published in access to the silence: poems and posters 1984–2000 (etruscan, 2004)

                scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/p

                in hospital
Tom Leonard


I like seeing nurse frieda knitting
as I like watching my wife knitting
as I liked watching my mother knitting
though she was more of a dabber
(plain and purl, plain and purl)

it’s not
“women being in their place”
or knitting the chains that keep them down

just

the future, knitting the future
the present peaceful, quiet
as if

the same woman knitting
for a thousand years

                Alt...in hospital Tom Leonard I like seeing nurse frieda knitting as I like watching my wife knitting as I liked watching my mother knitting though she was more of a dabber (plain and purl, plain and purl) it’s not “women being in their place” or knitting the chains that keep them down just the future, knitting the future the present peaceful, quiet as if the same woman knitting for a thousand years

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                  [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                  @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                  Tom Leonard, “The underfunder’s utopia”
                  published in outside the narrative (etruscan books, 2009)

                  The underfunder’s utopia

the state hospital
with one bed

always full
always efficient

                  Alt...The underfunder’s utopia the state hospital with one bed always full always efficient

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                    [?]Kent Pitman » 🌐
                    @kentpitman@climatejustice.social

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                    [?]Kent Pitman » 🌐
                    @kentpitman@climatejustice.social

                    RE: universeodon.com/@HollyCo26588

                    Climate storms our gates.
                    We could mount a real response,
                    but let's close the blinds.

                    For more contextual info, see my comment attached to climatejustice.social/@HollyCo

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                      [?]Owlsight » 🌐
                      @owlsight@mastodon.social

                      Neighborhood at dusk
                      Friends laughing and playing cards
                      Window spills lamplight 

                      Prompt ~ Lamplight

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                        [?]AI6YR Ben » 🌐
                        @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

                        Creepy stalkers wear our glasses
                        Go around looking at women's a***
                        Tracking everything that you've bought
                        Sell that data, fund my yacht
                        Nothing I ever do would be opt in
                        Asking permission it's a sin
                        Billionaires just take and take
                        What they want, too bad mate
                        But alas what is worse
                        Are all the billionaire fans, they're a curse

                        (human written)

                          [?]Michelle » 🌐
                          @Aphelion@mastodon.sdf.org

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                          [?]AI6YR Ben » 🌐
                          @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

                          Poem for the occasional (composed by me)

                          Forty cats were sailing the seven seas
                          The wind was fierce, so were the fleas
                          Wandering around on a sailboat then
                          Who know where they set sail from or when

                          Drifted into Tacoma one day
                          Someone called the police they say
                          For hungry mewing and meowing you could hear
                          From the beach and the shore very near

                          Alas the kitties and kittens were rescued by boat
                          The sailboat at least it continued to float
                          The cats had to abandon their around the world sail
                          For their venture, it appears, was destined to fail

                          (human written)

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                            [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                            @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                            Twa Cats anes on a Cheese did light,
                            To which baith had an equal Right,
                            But Disputes, sic as aft arise,
                            Fell out at sharing of the Prize…

                            —Allan Ramsay (1686–1758), “The twa Cats & the Cheese”
                            digitised by the National Library of Scotland

                            Today, 8 August, is International Cat Day
                            😾 😾 🧀 🐵

                            digital.nls.uk/special-collect

                            The twa Cats and the Cheese 
Fable IX
by Allan Ramsay

Twa Cats anes on a Cheese did light,
To which baith had an equal Right,
But Disputes, sic as aft arise,
Fell out at sharing of the Prize;
Fair Play said ane, Ye bite o’er thick
Thae Teeth of yours gang wonder quick:
Let’s part it, else lang or the Moon
Be chang’d, the Kebuck will be done.

                            Alt...The twa Cats and the Cheese Fable IX by Allan Ramsay Twa Cats anes on a Cheese did light, To which baith had an equal Right, But Disputes, sic as aft arise, Fell out at sharing of the Prize; Fair Play said ane, Ye bite o’er thick Thae Teeth of yours gang wonder quick: Let’s part it, else lang or the Moon Be chang’d, the Kebuck will be done.

                            But wha’s to do’t,—They’re Parties baith,
And ane may do the other Skaith,
Sae with Consent away they trudge,
And laid the Cheese before a Judge,
A Monkey with a campsho Face,
Clerk to a Justice of the Peace,
A Judge he seem’d in Justice skill’d,
When he his Master’s Chair fill’d;
Now Umpire chosen for Division,
Baith sware to stand by his Decision.
Demure he looks.—The Cheese he pales,—
He prives it good,—Ca’s for the Scales,
His Knife whops throw’t,—In twa it fell,
He puts ilk Haff in either Shell;
Said he, We’ll truly weigh the Case,
And strickest Justice shall have Place,
Then lifting up the Scales, he fand
The tane bang up, the ither stand;
Syne out he took the heaviest Haff,
And ate a Knoost o’t quickly aff,
And try’d it syne,—It now prov’d light,
Friend Cats, said he, We’ll do ye right.
Then to the ither Haff he fell,
And laid till’t teughly Tooth and Nail,
Till weigh’d again it lightest prov’d:
The Judge wha this sweet Process lov’d,
Still weigh’d the Case, and still ate on,
Till Clients baith were weary grown,

                            Alt...But wha’s to do’t,—They’re Parties baith, And ane may do the other Skaith, Sae with Consent away they trudge, And laid the Cheese before a Judge, A Monkey with a campsho Face, Clerk to a Justice of the Peace, A Judge he seem’d in Justice skill’d, When he his Master’s Chair fill’d; Now Umpire chosen for Division, Baith sware to stand by his Decision. Demure he looks.—The Cheese he pales,— He prives it good,—Ca’s for the Scales, His Knife whops throw’t,—In twa it fell, He puts ilk Haff in either Shell; Said he, We’ll truly weigh the Case, And strickest Justice shall have Place, Then lifting up the Scales, he fand The tane bang up, the ither stand; Syne out he took the heaviest Haff, And ate a Knoost o’t quickly aff, And try’d it syne,—It now prov’d light, Friend Cats, said he, We’ll do ye right. Then to the ither Haff he fell, And laid till’t teughly Tooth and Nail, Till weigh’d again it lightest prov’d: The Judge wha this sweet Process lov’d, Still weigh’d the Case, and still ate on, Till Clients baith were weary grown,

                            And tenting how the Matter went,
Cry’d, Come, come Sir, We’re baith content.
Ye Fools, quoth he, and Justice too
Maun be content as well as you.
Thus grumbled they, thus he went on,
Till baith the Haves were near hand done;
Poor Pousies now the Daffine saw
Of gawn for Nignyes to the Law:
And bill’d the Judge that he wad please
To give them the remaining Cheese:
To which his Worship grave reply’d,
The Dues of Court maun first be paid.
Now Justice pleas’d,—What’s to the Fore
Will but right scrimply clear your Score;
That’s our Decreet,—Gae Hame and Sleep,
And thank us ye’re win aff sae cheap.

                            Alt...And tenting how the Matter went, Cry’d, Come, come Sir, We’re baith content. Ye Fools, quoth he, and Justice too Maun be content as well as you. Thus grumbled they, thus he went on, Till baith the Haves were near hand done; Poor Pousies now the Daffine saw Of gawn for Nignyes to the Law: And bill’d the Judge that he wad please To give them the remaining Cheese: To which his Worship grave reply’d, The Dues of Court maun first be paid. Now Justice pleas’d,—What’s to the Fore Will but right scrimply clear your Score; That’s our Decreet,—Gae Hame and Sleep, And thank us ye’re win aff sae cheap.

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                              [?]AI6YR Ben » 🌐
                              @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

                              FSD zombie,
                              In the next lane
                              No one is steering
                              Where is your brain?

                              Hands on the wheel
                              But eyes on a screen
                              Not watching the road
                              Drooling running out in a stream

                              Suddenly your car veers
                              Into a tree
                              Goodbye
                              FSD zombie

                              (human composed)

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                                [?]Karen Kaspar » 🌐
                                @KarenKasparArt@socel.net

                                eat, drink, sleep, cuddle
                                sometimes I wish
                                I was my cat

                                My ink drawing of this cute kitty is also available combined with this lovely haiku.

                                Haiku: @MarjoleinRotsteeg

                                eat, drink, sleep, cuddle
sometimes I wish
I was my cat

Sweet dreams is a minimalist black and white ink drawing by artist Karen Kaspar. A cute kitten lies sleeping on the floor. It seems to be smiling and having sweet dreams.

This work, a combination of painting and haiku, is a joint project by Karen Kaspar (© art and artwork) and Marjolein Rotsteeg (© Haiku).
A haiku is a traditional Japanese poetry form consisting of three lines.

Here the ink drawing was supplemented with the haiku in English

                                Alt...eat, drink, sleep, cuddle sometimes I wish I was my cat Sweet dreams is a minimalist black and white ink drawing by artist Karen Kaspar. A cute kitten lies sleeping on the floor. It seems to be smiling and having sweet dreams. This work, a combination of painting and haiku, is a joint project by Karen Kaspar (© art and artwork) and Marjolein Rotsteeg (© Haiku). A haiku is a traditional Japanese poetry form consisting of three lines. Here the ink drawing was supplemented with the haiku in English

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                                  [?]Kent Pitman » 🌐
                                  @kentpitman@climatejustice.social

                                  wildfire haze clouds thought.
                                  when it lets up, let's fix this.
                                  what if it doesn't?

                                  A view of a bleak, hazy, white-orange sky with a sun that is muted and has a visible corona, scattered by the haze. Hills are barely visible as outlines in the distance. In the foreground, a flag flies at half staff, presumably for an unrelated reason, and yet it contributes visually to a sense of foreboding or mourning in the scene.

                                  Alt...A view of a bleak, hazy, white-orange sky with a sun that is muted and has a visible corona, scattered by the haze. Hills are barely visible as outlines in the distance. In the foreground, a flag flies at half staff, presumably for an unrelated reason, and yet it contributes visually to a sense of foreboding or mourning in the scene.

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                                    [?]Dave Rahardja » 🌐
                                    @drahardja@sfba.social

                                    “PLEASE USE AI” — poem by Joanna Atkins-Potts

                                    Source: hxxps://www.instagram.com/p/DZaR5o_iKNy/

                                    PLEASE USE AI

Please use AI
when your mother dies.

Ask it what grief feels like.
Let it explain bereavement
in twelve clear bullet points.

Do not spend years
finding her
in the supermarket
by the tomatoes she always bought,
in the smell of rain on warm pavement,
discovering new ways
to miss her.

                                    Alt...PLEASE USE AI Please use AI when your mother dies. Ask it what grief feels like. Let it explain bereavement in twelve clear bullet points. Do not spend years finding her in the supermarket by the tomatoes she always bought, in the smell of rain on warm pavement, discovering new ways to miss her.

                                    Please use AI
the next time you fall in love.

Ask it how to know
whether someone is the one.

It will give you a faster answer
than watching a person become familiar,
learning how they take their tea,
which floorboards will wake them,
how their silence sounds
when something is wrong.

                                    Alt...Please use AI the next time you fall in love. Ask it how to know whether someone is the one. It will give you a faster answer than watching a person become familiar, learning how they take their tea, which floorboards will wake them, how their silence sounds when something is wrong.

                                    And please use AI
for your wedding vows,
your eulogies,
your apologies.

Why struggle
for the right words
when a machine can give you
beautiful ones?

Words untouched by shaking hands.
Words that have never sat beside
a hospital bed.
Words that have never known
the terrible privilege
of having something to lose.

                                    Alt...And please use AI for your wedding vows, your eulogies, your apologies. Why struggle for the right words when a machine can give you beautiful ones? Words untouched by shaking hands. Words that have never sat beside a hospital bed. Words that have never known the terrible privilege of having something to lose.

                                    Meanwhile

I will be over here
watching someone I love
fall asleep on the sofa,
the television talking to itself,
rain tapping the windows,
the dog twitching in her dreams,

wasting my life
on these small unremarkable moments
that become,
without asking permission,
the whole thing.

                                    Alt...Meanwhile I will be over here watching someone I love fall asleep on the sofa, the television talking to itself, rain tapping the windows, the dog twitching in her dreams, wasting my life on these small unremarkable moments that become, without asking permission, the whole thing.

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                                      [?]AI6YR Ben » 🌐
                                      @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

                                      Poem for the occasion of INTERSTELLAR SUGAR DUST

                                      Interstellar sugar dust
                                      Send me by rocket, if you must
                                      Need to lick up the sweetness of space
                                      I hear of raspberries it does taste
                                      If you can fly around oh my
                                      That sweetness lurking in the sky

                                      (human composed, mine)

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                                        [?]AI6YR Ben » 🌐
                                        @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

                                        I'm no patriot, won't fly no flag
                                        You've taken that away, and it's a drag
                                        Used to proudly fly the Red White and Blue
                                        til they told me, buddy, it's not for you

                                        People gave their life, but not for a king
                                        But you've gone and changed it, that's the thing
                                        It's a country for brown, black, yellow, white and red
                                        Any color of skin, that's what they said

                                        But now they're telling us you don't belong here
                                        Just a country for white Christian racists, I fear
                                        So I'll keep the flag folded, in a drawer in the den
                                        Til someday maybe, it will come out again

                                        (human)

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                                          [?]Kent Pitman » 🌐
                                          @kentpitman@climatejustice.social

                                          arctic thirty-eight?
                                          well, at least not three eighty.
                                          THEN we'd have to care.

                                          A summary from a DuckDuckGo search result that shows an article by the World Meteorological Organization with the headline "WMO recognizes new Arctic temperature record of 380C". The one-line summary of the article beneath it makes it clear this headline has a typo, since it says "A temperature of 38°C (100.4°F) in the Russian town of Verkhoyank on 20 June 2020 has been recognized as a new Arctic temperature record by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)."

                                          Alt...A summary from a DuckDuckGo search result that shows an article by the World Meteorological Organization with the headline "WMO recognizes new Arctic temperature record of 380C". The one-line summary of the article beneath it makes it clear this headline has a typo, since it says "A temperature of 38°C (100.4°F) in the Russian town of Verkhoyank on 20 June 2020 has been recognized as a new Arctic temperature record by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)."

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                                            [?]Earl » 🌐
                                            @Earl@mast.john1126.com

                                            Can you tell this voice is AI? It sounds very human to me.

                                            Free tool used to generate audio: on

                                            This is the reading of Part II to the poem:
                                            Muspilli

                                            meaning "World's End"

                                            (from the year 870 AD, originally written in Old German by anonymous)

                                            Old High German is no longer used today in normal communications, but could still translate it.

                                            john1126.com/537

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                                              [?]AI6YR Ben » 🌐
                                              @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

                                              @wtrmt @VATVSLPR @AndrewHenry

                                              The siren sounds of duct tape
                                              Luring people in
                                              Make them want to wrap stuff up
                                              Leading to a life of sin

                                              Strapping stuff together
                                              With cloth, plastic, glue
                                              It's all fine and dandy
                                              You can even fix your shoe

                                              It all seems to be working
                                              No need for bolts or screws
                                              Til you have a sudden failure
                                              And your shoes you lose

                                              Now I hear you can duct tape
                                              Your broken bumper now
                                              Still one day in the future
                                              It'll still fall off, POW!

                                              Their seductive rolls beckon
                                              Fix everything thing with me
                                              Alas another year in the sun
                                              And it's broken again, see!

                                              (human written!)

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                                                [?]Owlsight » 🌐
                                                @owlsight@mastodon.social

                                                After dinner walk
                                                Saying hello to neighbors
                                                Long summer days

                                                Prompt ~ Long Days

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                                                  [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                                                  @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                                                  , 24 June, in 1314, the Scottish army under King Robert I destroyed a much larger English invasion force at Bannockburn, in one of the most decisive battles in medieval history. In 1793 Robert Burns composed “Scots Wha Hae”, originally entitled “Robert Bruce’s March To Bannockburn”

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                                                  Poem: "Scots Wha Hae", by Robert Burns

(tune: Hey, Tutti Tatie)

Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled, 
Scots, wham Bruce has aften led,
Welcome to your gory bed‍‍
‍‍Or to victorie! 

Now’s the day, and now’s the hour:
See the front o’ battle lour,
See approach proud Edward’s power— ‍‍
‍‍Chains and slaverie!

Wha will be a traitor knave? 
Wha can fill a coward’s grave? 
Wha sae base as be a slave?—‍‍
‍‍Let him turn, and flee!

Wha for Scotland’s king and law 
Freedom’s sword will strongly draw, 
Freeman stand or freeman fa’, ‍‍
‍‍Let him follow me! 

By Oppression’s woes and pains,
By your sons in servile chains, 
We will drain our dearest veins ‍‍
‍‍But they shall be free! 

Lay the proud usurpers low! 
Tyrants fall in every foe! 
Liberty’s in every blow!— 
‍‍Let us do or die!

                                                  Alt...Poem: "Scots Wha Hae", by Robert Burns (tune: Hey, Tutti Tatie) Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed‍‍ ‍‍Or to victorie! Now’s the day, and now’s the hour: See the front o’ battle lour, See approach proud Edward’s power— ‍‍ ‍‍Chains and slaverie! Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward’s grave? Wha sae base as be a slave?—‍‍ ‍‍Let him turn, and flee! Wha for Scotland’s king and law Freedom’s sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand or freeman fa’, ‍‍ ‍‍Let him follow me! By Oppression’s woes and pains, By your sons in servile chains, We will drain our dearest veins ‍‍ ‍‍But they shall be free! Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty’s in every blow!— ‍‍Let us do or die!

                                                    [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                                                    @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                                                    Burns wrote that he was inspired by Bruce’s “glorious struggle for Freedom, associated with the glowing ideas of some other struggles of the same nature, not quite so ancient” – probably a reference to the Radical movement, & to Thomas Muir of Huntershill

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                                                    quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/

                                                    A bronze bust, green with verdigris, of Thomas Muir of Huntershill, depicting him after he had suffered a serious injury to his face. A young man, he wears an eighteenth-century coat with a high collar and a ruffled cravat. His hair is swept back, and a cloth is draped over the left side of his face, tied in place with a band around his forehead.

                                                    Alt...A bronze bust, green with verdigris, of Thomas Muir of Huntershill, depicting him after he had suffered a serious injury to his face. A young man, he wears an eighteenth-century coat with a high collar and a ruffled cravat. His hair is swept back, and a cloth is draped over the left side of his face, tied in place with a band around his forehead.

                                                      [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                                                      @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                                                      The song quickly became popular, & the tune was adapted as “Marche des soldats de Robert Bruce” for the French army. It also features in the concert overture “Rob Roy” by Berlioz & the 4th movement of the “Scottish Fantasy” by Max Bruch 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇫🇷

                                                      3/5

                                                      youtube.com/watch?v=zE4eE20Dk5I

                                                        [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                                                        @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                                                        In 1881 the New York Times, reviewing Helen Kendrick Johnson’s OUR FAMILIAR SONGS & THOSE WHO MADE THEM, asserted that no song was “more glorious”, & that once Burns’s poem had been set to the tune of “Hey, Tuttie Tatie”, it “marched through the land forever, loud, & triumphant”

                                                        4/5

                                                        Book cover: a late nineteenth-century book cover, somewhat scuffed. The cover is a brownish-yellow. A gold medallion showing four men in profile is framed by a curved horn and backed by two pipes. The title is

OUR FAMILIAR SONGS
AND THOSE WHO MADE THEM

                                                        Alt...Book cover: a late nineteenth-century book cover, somewhat scuffed. The cover is a brownish-yellow. A gold medallion showing four men in profile is framed by a curved horn and backed by two pipes. The title is OUR FAMILIAR SONGS AND THOSE WHO MADE THEM

                                                          [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                                                          @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                                                          Here is Dick Gaughan performing “Scots Wha Hae”, to an audience that includes Dr Maya Angelou – from the documentary ANGELOU ON BURNS (first shown on BBC2, 1996)

                                                          5/5

                                                          youtube.com/watch?v=qx8hEoJNVdM

                                                            [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                                                            @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                                                            PS – the whole of ANGELOU ON BURNS is currently available to watch on the BBC iPlayer

                                                            bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0013vcs

                                                              [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                                                              @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                                                              PPS – if you can’t watch the documentary on the iPlayer, it’s also on YouTube:

                                                              youtube.com/watch?v=wwbuCL-Osh8

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                                                                [?]Kent Pitman » 🌐
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                                                                proud, we sacrifice,
                                                                wanting the best for our kids.
                                                                such climate fiction.

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                                                                  [?]myrmepropagandist [she/her/lady/ma'am/That One/Mrs.] » 🌐
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                                                                  Aw give me a home
                                                                  where the fat aphids roam
                                                                  and naive slow crickets will play...

                                                                  Were seldom is left
                                                                  a bad pheromone path
                                                                  and the skies are not cloudy all day

                                                                  Home, home in the branch
                                                                  where naive slow crickets will play!
                                                                  Well catch em all fast
                                                                  cricket legs for breakfast
                                                                  and the skies are not cloudy all day

                                                                  (drawing from:etsy.com/listing/1188122763/cu)

                                                                  A black and white line drawing of an ant with a lil cowgirl hat and a neck bandana riding an aphid.

                                                                  Alt...A black and white line drawing of an ant with a lil cowgirl hat and a neck bandana riding an aphid.

                                                                    [?]Steam Powered Frisbee 🥏 » 🌐
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                                                                    I am! yet what I am none cares or knows,

                                                                    My friends forsake me like a memory lost;

                                                                    I am the self-consumer of my woes....

                                                                    John Clare, c1845

                                                                      [?]Kent Pitman » 🌐
                                                                      @kentpitman@climatejustice.social

                                                                      As Climate ratchets,
                                                                      skeptics scoff, still asking proof.
                                                                      Cartoon Physics shield.

                                                                      When none remain to agree,
                                                                      will that be finally Proof?

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                                                                        [?]OCTADE » 🌐
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                                                                        The Best Poem Ever
                                                                        by Brian Doyle

                                                                        What if, says a small child to me this afternoon,
                                                                        We made a poem without using any words at all?

                                                                        [.....]

                                                                        https://www.christiancentury.org/artsculture/poems/best-poem-ever


                                                                          [?]AmbientDread » 🌐
                                                                          @ambientdread@toot.io

                                                                          my lifetime spent on
                                                                          a painful pilgrimage to
                                                                          the next place to sit

                                                                          - pilgrimage





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                                                                            [?]OCTADE » 🌐
                                                                            @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                            Uncageable

                                                                            From the light of freedom to a concrete tomb,
                                                                            The fall was great and swift.
                                                                            My soul cried out in a mighty boom,
                                                                            How could it come to this?

                                                                            Clamped down, trapped stuck,
                                                                            Paralyzed in a tiny cage.
                                                                            Had fate left me not a drop of luck?
                                                                            Was there reason for this rage?

                                                                            Told to lay down and die,
                                                                            Something deep inside me stirred.
                                                                            I can’t be caged I have to fly!
                                                                            Not yet am I interred.

                                                                            They can take my body, tie me down,
                                                                            It matters not a bit.
                                                                            My spirit still runs wild and free,
                                                                            So in freedom here I sit.

                                                                            ~ Ross Ulbricht
                                                                            Apr 30, 2024

                                                                            It seems his artistic vision finally became reality.

                                                                            sources

                                                                            https://freeross.org/uncageable/

                                                                            https://rossulbricht.substack.com/p/uncageable-poem-and-drawing

                                                                            @poetry@a.gup.pe @poets@a.gup.pe @writers@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe

                                                                            Hand drawn image of a man interred in prison. He is kneeling in his cell between the bunk and desk cabinet, envisioning a scene above his head of a couple holding hands and giving thanks over food and a crowd seated together and a couple in the distance holding hands.

                                                                            Alt...Hand drawn image of a man interred in prison. He is kneeling in his cell between the bunk and desk cabinet, envisioning a scene above his head of a couple holding hands and giving thanks over food and a crowd seated together and a couple in the distance holding hands.