You'll enjoy this - Liz Niven's Poem of the Day in the Herald

Congratulations to Liz Niven, for Hamecomin Blessins, which was Poem of the Day in The Herald on 22 July.  Beautiful poem!  http://www.lizniven.com/


Hamecomin blessins



Blessins
oan the faimilies waitin,
breid, watter and mair oan the table,
bed made, hoose trig,
bit naebodie comes hame.

Blessins
oan the folk wi nae hames tae gan tae,
cooried, at the hin en o a dreich nicht,
intae cairdboard boxes or
warmin hauns roon a brazier unner a bypass
win flappin roon faces shilpit an wan.

Blessins
oan the sodger hunkert doon
in a bluid-soakt sheuch,
or the refugee staunin
at the black-brunt shell o hoose.

Blessins oan
thaim whae come hame,
thaim whae dinnae ,
thaim wi nae hame tae gan tae.
in this Hamecomin year.


Liz Niven
(shortlisted McCash 2009)