The Ornsay Lighthouse Poem by Laurence Overmire

Thomas Stevenson
A lighthouse engineer
The father of the novelist
Robert Louis Stevenson
Built the lighthouse on
Eilean Sionnach
Isle Ornsay
In 1857

It's a beautiful thing
To contemplate

Perched on a crust of rock
East of Sleat, off the Isle of
Skye

The Hills of Knoydart
Offer backdrop
And majesty
To its intermittent
Proclamations
Of light

Oft painted and photographed
The shifting moods
Of sea and sky
Are stunningly captured and
Recreated
Over and over again

In the artists'
Evocative
Imaginations.

~ Laurence Overmire

(Previously published in The Ghost of Rabbie Burns: An American Poet's Journey Through Scotland, Indelible Mark Publishing,2016)