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Poems of the Week | Astronomer Seal and Arria by R.P Moran

By R.P Moran

Astronomer Seal

by R.P Moran

Torpedo snouted,

gazing up to 

battleship-grey skies.

Scanning for what?

 

Sonar singing

through clouds, 

fishing for stars;

 

hungry for

answers.

 

Arria

after the roadside sculpture by Andy Scott near Cumbernauld

Driving between the Central Belt

And the Highlands she’s caught,

Briefly, in my peripheral vision.

Her delicate, steely frame

Rises out of an air

More aqueous than anything;

A murky, misty night.

A mermaid, far from the shore,

She is a transitional creature,

Transcendental; a confluence of ideas,

Imagery and possibilities. Her raised arms,

Unreservedly, embrace the universe.

Now, miles down the road,

She still exists, suspended

Between the hard hill and the imagination;

Between fiction and Truth.

 

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Cover photo by R.P Moran

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Born and bred in Edinburgh, Scotland, R.P. Moran started to write poetry in the mid-1980s. The mid 1990s saw the publication of a number of poems, mostly in local magazines in the Orkneys and Shetlands but also in an established poetry magazine. By the late 1990s a return to mature studying and, after, concentration on raising a young family as a stay-at-home parent offered little time for poetry. In 2016 a return to work in the heritage sector has given more time, space and inspiration for poetry.