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Education » Teaching resources › Poet/Makar/Bard › Close your eyes and open your minds

Guided by Christian McEwen, S1 student from James Gillespie’s and Liberton High schools reached deep into their imaginations as they considered objects, emotions, creatures and seasons in a whole new light.

Stone

Potholed stone
Moon in my hand
Falls from the sky

Joe Lawrence

Spring

A dog
Running free
Spring afternoon

Thomas Bell

Peace

A fire-bellied newt
Just floating, spread out
At sunset

Mairi Lang

Sea shell

Hard boiled sweetie
Sucked up by the sea

Eilidh Harper

Responsibility

Goldfish
Looking expectantly at me
Tea-time

Claire Kennedy

Gerbils

My gerbils
The squeak of their hellos
A warming happiness

Kaystina Coates

The three most gentle things in the world

A mother crab
A hand held our
A sword never used

Morag MacGregor

The three quietest things in the world

A mouse searching for food
A dark room at night
A graveyard in winter

Ben Parkes

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