A quiet walk in a favourite place earlier today: the Red Moss of Balerno, a few miles outside Edinburgh resting in the soft shadows of the Pentland Hills.

It never fails to calm my mind.

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I've put a new post on my site today, of a slightly longer poem in two parts: a chronicle of two visits two months apart to the same location, Bavelaw.

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https://brianlavelle.scot/bavelaw/

Bavelaw

the thaw had not reached Bavelaw yet the castle uncaught hidden still in silence the deer at the trees’ edge alert, watches me I walk aw...

Brian Lavelle | musician & writer