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  1. Whether the weather be dreich or fair, my luve,
    if guid times greet us, or we hae tae face the worst,
    ahint and afore whit will happen tae us…

    —Jackie Kay, “A Lang Promise”
    published in BANTAM (Picador, 2017)

    panmacmillan.com/authors/jacki

    #Scottish #literature #ValentinesDay #Valentine #poem #poetry #LGBTQ #LGBTQplusHM #lovepoem #lovepoetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #womenwriters #JackieKay

  2. There were never strawberries
    like the ones we had
    that sultry afternoon
    sitting on the step
    of the open french window
    facing each other
    your knees held in mine…

    —Edwin Morgan, “Strawberries”🍓
    published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2020)

    carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer

    #Scottish #literature #ValentinesDay #poem #poetry #LGBTQ #LGBTQplusHM #Valentine #lovepoem #lovepoetry #EdwinMorgan #20thcentury

  3. When you go,
    if you go,
    and I should want to die,
    there’s nothing I’d be saved by
    more than the time
    you fell asleep in my arms…

    —Edwin Morgan, “When You Go”
    published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2020)

    carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer

    #Scottish #literature #ValentinesDay #LGBTQ #LGBTQplusHM #poem #poetry #Valentine #lovepoem #lovepoetry #EdwinMorgan