Concerto On A Buchan Farm (Fadlydyke, New Deer) Poem by Sheena Blackhall

Mankind, so high and mighty
Takes scant heed of such things
As death of fur and feathers
Of prickles, hides and wings

The cuckoos and the nightingales
That chant above the grass
They celebrate each pilgrimage
Of little souls that pass

They keep midsummer vigil
Of the bees’ marriage bed
Where ghosts of hens and butterflies
From farmlands have fled

The barleys’ rustle cheers them
A verdant waterfall
Of notes and trills of crickets
That under-strum it all

They hear the grains’ concerto
As sweet as Mendelssohn
And treasure raindrops’ echoes
When summer storms have gone