Tag: highlands

• The Distance We Carry

  The story bends north long before I arrive,a woman carrying four childrenas far from harm as she can manage,finding Thurso at the edge of what’s possible.My dad grows up in that far light,learns the sea’s voice, leaves when work demands it.Years later, I come for my own reasons,thinking I’m starting from somewhere else,and feel the…

  Tavendale

  25th Mar 2026

  Poetry

  caithness, family, highlands, home, original, poem, poems, Poetry, scotland, scottish, thurso

• Decommissioning Caithness

  Dounreay dismantled, piece by piece,reactors hushed, the glow at peace.Steel and concrete, stripped with care,a future planned in thinning air. And in the town, the same routine:doors shut quiet, streets go lean.Not radiation, but resignation,a slow embrace of ruination. They decommission shops like rods,pubs like turbines, hopes like gods.Every closure signed and stamped,as if decline…

  Tavendale

  3rd Feb 2026

  Poetry

  caithness, decay, decline, dounreay, highlands, neglect, original, poem, poems, Poetry, scotland, scottish, thurso, wick