Poem Blog 32 Poems for Sharing

  Ode to Glendhu bothy ( for Richard *) Far away from civilisation and the nearest road stray voices blend together in this lonely abode a silent plume of smoke twists on forever higher frozen in cadence from the wayfarers fire bothy of the seasons in the river of time away from the rat race and the ugliness of crime though the artist's brush paints a melancholy scene you can see  where the pathway to peace has been there were nights of purgatory but you loved every minute but joy is retrospective so you were pleased that you did it watching your fortunes change  from darkness to light even if sleep eluded you throughout the night the craggy hills stretched out ahead to play their hand while the happy seals play on the fringes of sand consoled by remoteness and divorced from reality living testimony to how life was meant to be. * Richard was a real character who we met at Glendhhu bothy and later outside Scourie shop. He completely radiated the spirit of Highland bothying...