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WRITING
Bobby is a poet and a songwriter. He is the Poet in Residence at his local RSPB in Lochwinnoch, from where he gets a fair chunk of his inspiration. His poetry and songs are reflective and contemplative in nature, and draw on his love of the natural landscapes of Scotland and his love of wildlife and mountains.
His book Lots of Things was released in 2023. He is currently studying for a degree in Creative Writing with the Open University.
His current writing and music project encompasses the life and works of Alexander Wilson; son of Renfrewshire, Poet and Father of American Ornithology.
You can read his poetry and prose at the wordpress blog link below.
MOST RECENT POEMS
Wise uncles and fairy raids
Let me have nice dreams,
The floating drowsily downstream dreams,
Slack jawed and unfurrowed brow dreams,
unwoken by pummelling paws,
soft purring maws,
A sleep sunk deep in soft pillows,
on summer beds of dried leaves,
Heads rested in clasped hands we shoot the breeze
Recount glorifying tales,
Sage actors and our peers foretell,
Of every avenue in which we excel,
and in shadows a changeling awaits,
to inhabit, inhibit, instate.
And never to wake…
But dawn breaks and we shake down the shadows and trust
ourselves, to this unravelling reveal,
kneaded and annealed; our shell,
that in dreams which the dark drew, and well…
Dreams of dolphin clicks and Delphic aunts
who dispense and tenderly decant ice cold lemonade,
and of wise uncles, and fairy raids.
The basket of crabs
Just as you think
You’ve found a way out
Close to the brink
Of escape from the crowd
Just as you’re free
A lone pincer grabs
And drags you back into
The basket of crabs
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