walking groups

a few poems from some of my visit with walk groups

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The Gentle walkers of Kemnay

your short walks

my minor walks

their gentle walks

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The Sole Sisters of Kirkcaldy

saudade means

saudade only

      there’s no

      translation – 

   unless

   it’s feeling

      the absence  

      of something

         loved

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The dog-walkers of Prestwick

the group walk with dogs
is a gentle outdoor form of pinball

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the memory walkers of Letham

I remember Mr Stewart’s Scottish soldier

smart in his coloured glass uniform

watching orfe* patrol the wee pond


*golden orfe: a kind of posh goldfish; this poem describes a local garden with glass mosaics.