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A Hero\u2019s Deith<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Still he shidders, an staunds wi his swuird, an threitens,<\/p>\n kiverin wi breuken shield his kist\u2019s remains,<\/p>\n nou, his een are plowt intae infineet shaidae,<\/p>\n spirin frae lips that lin thair hero\u2019s sang.<\/p>\n Faur awa, twa seelent raens watch<\/p>\n The warriour arise wi shaidae weengs.<\/p>\n In the nicht o thae weengs, his een, bricht as day,<\/p>\n as flicht unnertaken, intae the lip o sky.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Craws<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ower the hime o battle,<\/p>\n An the jargle o warriours,<\/p>\n Passes a slaw beat o weengs;<\/p>\n An oorie craik is haurd<\/p>\n As the twa craws come,<\/p>\n Messengers daurk an divine,<\/p>\n And laund on the shooders o God,<\/p>\n An speak tae his ear.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Valhalla<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n A reid hime rings. Shields an spears a-dundert<\/p>\n intae a lang, uncannie rair.<\/p>\n Fae gapin mooths, the bluidy wounds sproot<\/p>\n purpie rivers.<\/p>\n An smuirichs, an lauchter,<\/p>\n An a mort-heid fou<\/p>\n o mead, for whilk<\/p>\n burnin wi fiver, deid warriours thirst.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thomas Clark<\/strong> is a Glaswegian poet, writer and filmmaker whose work has most recently been featured in Lallans, Southlight, The Eildon Tree, New Voices Press and Dream Catcher amongst others. He can be found at twitter.com\/ClashCityClarky.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Note: These poems are free translations into Scots dialect of originals by the Bolivian poet Ricardo Jaimes Freyre.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Hero\u2019s Deith Still he shidders, an staunds wi his swuird, an threitens, kiverin wi breuken shield his kist\u2019s remains, nou, his een are plowt intae infineet shaidae, spirin frae lips that lin thair hero\u2019s sang. Faur awa, twa seelent raens watch The warriour arise wi shaidae weengs. In the nicht […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6628"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6630,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628\/revisions\/6630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}