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Angela
10-Jul-08, 08:57
Not my own work - I found this little poem in the Herald recently and liked it.

To wake to the reassurance of grey stone streets
under a clouded, adequate Edinburgh sky,
finding one has the right change in one's pocket
for once: and for once there seems no cause to cry...
It is unnecessary to fly on a rocket.
Here is a day which one greets, not greeting.

golach
10-Jul-08, 09:06
Considering todays weather in Edinburgh, I thought this was a very apt poem Angela, many thanks, reading it caused the first chink of cheerfulness to appear on an otherwise dreich Auld Reekie day :)

wifie
10-Jul-08, 10:42
Angela that is a wee gem of a poem - just right for today - thanks.

canuck
11-Jul-08, 12:20
Considering todays weather in Edinburgh, I thought this was a very apt poem Angela, many thanks, reading it caused the first chink of cheerfulness to appear on an otherwise dreich Auld Reekie day :)

And it was so beautiful in Caithness yesterday.