Tag: Miscellaneous
-
The Old Man
—
In this bleak, untitled verse, an old man looks back bitterly at his failed relationship. Unpublished.
-
“To Carrie”
—
A poem for Carrie Murray, who has a back injury. Carrie was Barrowsgate’s sister-in-law. n.b. A “Taylor’s goose” is an old clothes iron – should be Tailor’s goose. Unpublished.
-
A keek in the windae
—
The author peeps through the window of his beloved’s bedroom and is shocked to see her with another man. Eventually, he realises that what he thought was another man is, in fact, a picture of himself.
-
The Clan Murray Gatherin’
—
Barrowsgate wrote this amusing verse for a Murray family get-together (Mrs B was, of course, Janet Murray). It was held in October 1956 at Inchmarlo School, where Chrissy Murray was the Headteacher. This was quite a significant event. All seven Murray siblings attended, with a combined age (as Barrowsgate observes) of 467 years. It would…