love poems
moon That night⎯ the night he came back. Standing at the door, saying he wanted to stay, ‘Could I? Please.’ Uncertain for a moment, I...
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Essays, Poetry & Articles
on diverse subjects in no particular order
Philip Dundas
- Apr 13, 2023
- 3 min
The Tamer - a poem
When I was a cub you reared me by hand Teaching me to feel no pain, So that when you whipped me, I would forget. Parading in your top...
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Philip Dundas
- Apr 11, 2023
- 1 min
Torridon Croft - a poem
winds claw at the glass; the old man reflected that his life had been the same ⎯ looking out beyond the black moor to an unspoken...
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Philip Dundas
- Mar 24, 2023
- 8 min
Scotland - a hand on history
"The mark of a Scot of all classes is that he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive...
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Philip Dundas
- Feb 21, 2023
- 2 min
The Perfect English Breakfast
How to make the perfect English breakfast
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Philip Dundas
- Feb 3, 2023
- 5 min
Victims Finally Have a Voice
published in The Times Scotland 03/02/23 It’s a cold winter’s afternoon in 1978. My mother draws up in her car to collect me from outside...
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Philip Dundas
- Jul 14, 2022
- 2 min
Toyboys & Tentacles
Early lessons in love and crustacea
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Philip Dundas
- May 28, 2022
- 1 min
The Buchaille
Each vertebrae and tendon is stretched taut in the ascent. Movement hugged into the spirit from whence it came, each manoeuvre, like a...
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Philip Dundas
- Apr 11, 2022
- 7 min
Holy Isle - Finding Peace
It’s absolutely calm. The mist hangs on the surface of the sea. It feels as though Charon, the boatman is transporting me over the Styx...
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Philip Dundas
- Apr 11, 2015
- 7 min
A Collected Brilliance
(published in The Scotsman 05/03/2003) Rumours abound. The Edinburgh literati are excited. There is a common theme in bar chat among the...
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Philip Dundas
- Jul 7, 2014
- 1 min
Lindos - an elegy
Piping bats tarry night, the sea sound echoes the wash of a different shore, the heart-beat of life here echoes another song. ‘Now...
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Philip Dundas
- Jul 14, 2008
- 7 min
Winifred Nicholson in Scotland
first published in The Scotsman ‘This place looks even more beautiful this year in stormy weather, and is even harder to paint. The high...
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