Poems that you love

[Leanne]

I saw this poem inscribed on the new monument at Bannockburn. I'd never read it before so I looked it up -- it's a very recent one by Kathleen Jamie from Stirling University, and also features as Scotland's entry into the Commonwealth Poetry Postcards series running on BBC Radio.

Anyway, I think it's lovely.

Here lies our land: every airt
Beneath swift clouds, glad glints of sun,
Belonging to none but itself.
We are mere transients, who sing
Its westlin' winds and fernie braes,
Northern lights and siller tides,
Small folk playing our part.
'Come all ye', the country says
You win me, who take me most to heart.