{"id":2165,"date":"2013-07-25T17:21:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T16:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2013-07-28T09:57:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T08:57:09","slug":"four-poems-by-angus-ogilvy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/four-poems-by-angus-ogilvy\/","title":{"rendered":"FOUR POEMS BY ANGUS OGILVY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coruscation<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Light accentuates dark.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In winter dawns<\/p>\n

I turn on my lamp<\/p>\n

and morning rolls over to midnight.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Dark accentuates light.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Relinquishing gloom<\/p>\n

I am dazzled<\/p>\n

by the lustre of the universe.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It doesn’t matter that<\/p>\n

the house burns down in the night<\/p>\n

in a preemptive attack on murk.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It doesn’t matter that<\/p>\n

hope’s slim candle splutters<\/p>\n

on its see-saw dance with dread.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Only my light,<\/p>\n

which accentuates<\/p>\n

and is accentuated<\/p>\n

by dark,<\/p>\n

shall pass.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a9Angus D.H. Ogilvy<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Moonwalk<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Walk now<\/p>\n

as you would walk<\/p>\n

that first time on the moon,<\/p>\n

each step an exploration in<\/p>\n

earthlight.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a9Angus D.H. Ogilvy<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

On the Island<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Held with me<\/p>\n

between the shock and the wonder,<\/p>\n

an oyster-catcher strutting<\/p>\n

with his hands behind his back<\/p>\n

voicing his concerns,<\/p>\n

blowing his vexations<\/p>\n

through a child’s first piccolo,<\/p>\n

charging with his carrot of alarm.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I watch him conjure<\/p>\n

nightmares in the evolutions<\/p>\n

of his three stone eggs<\/p>\n

to shrivel seaweeds on the shingle bank<\/p>\n

that he might dupe a passing crow.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Endless activity and frustration:<\/p>\n

always the invention of another thing<\/p>\n

to do, another fear, a found distraction,<\/p>\n

lest a lurking nothingness confront existence,<\/p>\n

reveal itself as certain as a cliff.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Better to be<\/p>\n

with the dullness of ignorance<\/p>\n

sheltered in conformities of stone.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Better to be<\/p>\n

scurrying the greywackes, an anti-hero<\/p>\n

screaming decoy presence as a charm.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Caught between the shock<\/p>\n

and the wonder,<\/p>\n

between the sea and its arc of emptiness,<\/p>\n

wind decides the attitude of water,<\/p>\n

wipes its moods across a passive sky;<\/p>\n

brushes with the linger of a whisper<\/p>\n

something that I ache to hear,<\/p>\n

but cannot hold,<\/p>\n

and ponder why.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a9Angus D.H. Ogilvy<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Wetlands<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Cloud wipes the moor like a scullery cloth<\/p>\n

that never dries; a mildewed caravan<\/p>\n

huddles by a breeze-block byre, disused, and<\/p>\n

casting slates into the burn’s fermenting froth.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Fences rust on the peat bog; pastures pocked<\/p>\n

by marsh grass; ancient run-rigs rut the land,<\/p>\n

their ditches full of dim. Like a webbed hand,<\/p>\n

a tipped tree reaches roots in rigor, locked.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Grieved spirits of the undeparted drape<\/p>\n

the stunted hills, and tempt the midday stones<\/p>\n

to glisten should a lustre but escape<\/p>\n

the lidded sky, allow the land atone<\/p>\n

for troubles done; for I could not mistake<\/p>\n

that cottage with its plywood blindfold groan.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a9Angus D.H. Ogilvy<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Angus<\/a><\/p>\n

ANGUS D.H.OGILVY<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Angus D. H. Ogilvy<\/b><\/p>\n

Angus was born in Glasgow, grew up in Galloway, and was educated in Edinburgh and Dundee. He has had a career in education which included 25 years as an international school teacher and administrator in Spain, China, Nepal, Indonesia and Zimbabwe. Since winning his school poetry prize in his youth, he has had an abiding interest in poetry and his poems have appeared in various publications.\u00a0 He returned to Edinburgh in 2008 and spends his time writing, doing voluntary work, and addressing conferences, seminars and symposiums about the patient experience of cancer using his poetry as an aid to communication. He has recently published a collection of poems, Lights in the Constellation of the Crab<\/i> in aid of Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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