The Ornsay Lighthouse

Thomas Stevenson A lighthouse engineer The father of the novelist Robert Louis Stevenson Built the lighthouse on Eilean Sionnach Isle Ornsay In 1857 It's a beautiful thing To contemplate Perched on a crust of rock East of Sleat, off the Isle of Skye The Hills of Knoydart Offer backdrop And majesty To its intermittent Proclamations Of light Oft painted and photographed The shifting moods Of sea and sky Are stunningly captured and Recreated Over and over again In the artists' Evocative Imaginations. ~ Laurence Overmire (Previously published in The Ghost of Rabbie Burns: An American Poet's Journey Through Scotland, Indelible Mark Publishing,2016)