2026-07-21 15:16 UTC
Scotland’s a sense of change, an endless
becoming for which there was never a kind
of wholeness or ultimate category.
Scotland’s an attitude of mind.
—“Speaking of Scotland” by Maurice Lindsay (1918–2009) – born #OTD, 21 July
Published in COLLECTED POEMS 1940–1990 (AUP 1990)
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot 2026-07-21 15:18
Your carolan’s blythe, bricht bird i the blackthorn bou, this braw Voar morn, wi trill eftir spirlan trill, tho you only ken the warld as it liggs the nou, an nocht but a glisk concerns your chatteran bill… —Maurice Lindsay, “On Hearin a Merle Singan” from A KIST O SKINKLAN THINGS (ASL 2016) 2/2 https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/ #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #Scotland