Auchinleck A-frame Anthology

Poem-labels written along the route of the via sacra, and photographed by the Barony A-frame.

poverty needs to plan
daisies make a chain

a tear in the curtain
provides the meanest of glimpses
behind the veil
that those of the decent
miners of the Barony
suffer behind

shafts of sun
are a scintillating rarity

QUOD PETIS HIC EST
all the great world in a library

the alphabet of trees
the lexicon of love –
both Boswellian bounty

Colliery colossus bestrides
Silenced black diamond
Darkness and death below
Now children play and
Birds sing in the light

Ayrshire me ravit
Boswell m’enchante
et mes nouveaux amis
écossais éclairent ma voie

a view of the summit
looking up from the green

Magnificent A-Frame
Heroic labours remembered

Anthology

Lines in lower case italics are by Alec Finlay; line in upper case italics by Horace; other lines by the poet-walkers above; photos by Ken Cockburn.

19 May 2013