Features / Poets’ Corner – Bruce Eunson
Poets’ Corner is a new feature Shetland News is introducing in collaboration with Carol Jamieson from Tresta.
Over coming months Carol will be introducing some of the wonderful artistic talent here in the isles.
We are making a start with Bruce Eunson, a well known local talent producing much creative work over the last 20 years.
His love of poetry started in his early teens when he found himself drawn to many of the European and American poets and later to the Shetland writers.
He has mostly concentrated on poems but has also created prose and short stories.
He is a regular contributor to the Shetland film festival Screenplay, The New Shetlander as well as the online at Shetland ForWirds.
His poem Lowe was written after a traumatic event in Eunson’s life. It certainly pulls the reader in and plays heavily with the emotions.
Most, if not all of us, will be able to connect with the poem in one way or another as it is an intimate reflection of the pain of the human condition.
Lowe
I juist feel lik Howard Hughes.
Is du seen dat film, da Aviator?
Du haes.
Does du mind yun bit whaar he burns aa his claes?
Du doesna.
Hit’s juist efter him an Katherine Hepburn sinders.
He caas her Katie …
Onywye, juist efter she laeves him,
he taks aa his claes oot,
lays dem in a haep ootside,
an sets lowe tae da hale lot.
He staands an taks aff iverything he haes on –
dat aa geens on da fire inaa,
til he’s staandin dere, naked.
Dat’s foo A’m feelin – lik I wid
lik tae tak iverything dat A’m iver woarn,
even da claes I hae on eenoo,
an set fire tae da hale lot, in a haep ida gairden.
“Why?”
Becis I niver waant tae feel lik dis iver agayn.
An I niver waant tae be minded o foo I felt daday.
An becis I wid dӧ onything – even geen tae da maest absurd,
insane lents – tae feel lik A’m dӧn somthin
dat’ll help me tae staart mi life agayn
wi nae memory o whit’s geen on.
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