Every Emotion: Hebridean Poetry

by George Carle

Overview

Living on the Hebridean Isle of Coll is far from easy. Many services taken for granted on the mainland are just not available. Summers are enjoyable but winters full of wind and rain. The very small community has its own set of problems. While George Carle’s poem An Island Life is a rather jaded, tongue-in-cheek look at what life is like on Coll, so many of his poems take their ethos and inspiration from his experience of life as a medical doctor living in this isolated and atmospheric region.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781469705330
Publisher:	iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/15/2001
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	222 KB

Table of Contents

	Epigraph	vii
	List of Published Poems	xv
	Introduction	xvii
	Separation
	Separation	3
	Not for Him	4
	Companion marriage	5
	Dissecting the Parting	6
	Loving and Leaving	7
	Children
	Paternal pleas	11
	Son of a Poet	12
	Orange Boy	13
	Where have my Children gone?	14
	Sadly sleeps my Son	15
	Two World	16
	Where Shall My Love Be?	17
	A Lost Daughter	18
	Anguish
	Free Me	21
	Fire and Ashes	22
	Moods	23
	Now and Then	24
	A Lost Life	25
	Deranging Demons	26
	Tormented Times	27
	Fire and Vapour	28
	Return From the Wilderness	29
	Fear	30
	A Poet's Song	31
	Emotional Man	32
	Love
	Woman of Whispering White	35
	Beyond Passion	36
	Take Me	37
	Midlife Temptation	38
	Enticing	39
	First Time	40
	Lost Love	41
	The Land of Downy Dreams	42
	The Seeds of Barley Love	43
	My Lover's Eyes	44
	Before His Time	45
	Sexual Sleep	46
	The Doubter	47
	The Proposal	48
	The Concubine	49
	Doing It	50
	Union	51
	Love Me	52
	Religion
	Circular God	55
	The Righteous are not Worthy	56
	Mark of the Lord	57
	Deliverance	58
	Religious Question time	60
	Death
	The Yellow Crab	63
	Life after Death	65
	A Time to Die	67
	The Mist of Birth and Death	68
	Looking back from Death	69
	The Banyan Tree	71
	The Latecomer	72
	Coll
	An Island Life	75
	Song of the Hebrides	77
	Hangman's Hill	78
	Gale Force Fathers	79
	Ponies	80
	Near Departed Pooch	81
	Vein Drain	82
	Oceana	83
	Egocentricity
	I am no Mortal Man	87
	Demi God	88
	Judgment	89
	Humorous
	Canine Woes	93
	Clicking and Whirring	95
	Highlights	96
	Bumblies Begone	97
	Helluva Heaven	98
	Green Horses	99
	Time Travellers	100
	Age
	Father of his Flock	105
	Middle Years	106
	Old with Experience	107
	Narrative
	The Killer	111
	Supper for the Sharks	113
	War Words	115
	Miscellaneous
	The Wahine	119
	A Sort of Justice	120
	Birth of a Parasite	121
	Rivers of Rain	122
	Vernal Verve	123
	Dry Surfing	124
	He Was Never Right	125
	Oak Hearts	128
	The Singing Poet	129
	Oppression	131
	Portrait of a Painter	133
	Window of Hope	135
	About the Author	137