Bob House Poems

Wi hunger pangs I pushed the door
An’ entered in ma local store
Rushin’ roon in search o’ scran
I didnae want tae use a pan
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A farmer of feelings
Tending the fields of untold dreams
Harvesting emotions
And bottling silent screams
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This poem is inspired by my teenage daughter's current attitudes to her studying. Parents, you've heard it all before!

Don’t want to stand out and look absurd
That’s only for a geek or a nerd
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Self –important egocentricity
Self-righteously centred on
Self-fulfilling prophecies
Self-selected from
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Our lives put on trial by TV
And sentenced by magazines
Berated by idealised icons
Brainwashed in our teens
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When I’m lost and lonely
When I feel I’ve lost the way
When darkness casts its cloak around me
Something comes to save the day
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The Vegetarian Haggis was written in January 2007 while the poet was working in a ski hire shop in Les Gets in the French Alps. He was about to recite Burns' famous 'Address to the Haggis' at the Bar Bush in Les Gets which was an annual event. Knowing that there was also to be a vegetarian option to the traditional Burns' Night Haggis neeps and tatties he decided that it would be fitting to provide a contemporary version which would follow Burns' aptittude for social comment. The poem therefore addresses this vegetarian option and comments somewhat irreverently on the food and diet ideas of the time.


Whit’s this you’ve put upon ma plate?
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A heart is a place to guard all that is precious to you
A place to hide the things you hold most dear
May this heart hold some special moments
Treasured from life from year on year
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Merci ma petite étoile
Merci d’être toi
Tu brilles dans mon ciel
Tu illumines ma voie
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Ten years in France, I really should
Appreciate this type of food.
I started young, weaned on baguette
Not ready then for Andouillette.
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