James Fraser's Blog
 My name is James Andrew Fraser, I reside in Inverness. The Capital of the Highlands of Bonnie Scotland. I am separated, with four lovely children. Andrew, Steven, Rebekah and Liam. I work in the sales industry, primarily to Scottish Fish Farms and Processing Plants. I also look after an Engineering Company in my customer portfolio. I am a big fan of Football/Soccer and I support Glasgow Rangers and Everton. My three sons play the beautiful game, and all the kids support Arsenal. Poetry is so new to me, I have been writing for just under a year now, but I look forward to writing to well into the future. My preferred topics are fantasy and nature, but I do try to broaden my choices as my poetry to present shows. My main hobbies apart from poetry are Music and Art. Many years back I used to do copies of Album Covers, especially fantasy ones, as I marvelled at the likes of Roger Dean and Storm Thorgerson. You can find their work on the Albums of Yes and Pink Floyd respectively. The bands that I like are many, Pink Floyd, Marillion, Wishbone Ash, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Journey, Foreigner, Heart, Allman Bros, Ann Vriend, Amy MacDonald and so many more. And I love writing to music, nothing beats it in my eyes.
I thoroughly enjoy nature, and I do hope much of it is around for my children, and their childrens children. I would hate their legacy to end up a barren planet, because of our inhumanities to life around us. Much of the poetry on the Soup is on my website www.thehighlanderspoems.com and without the Soup, I very much doubt this site would have been created. My motto in life is, " You don't have to stand on someone to be taller than them "
| |
Most Recent Blog Post
Happy New Year from Bonnie Scotland
|
|
Blog Posted:12/31/2012 1:35:00 PM
|
A BIG Hello to the wonderful poets on Poetry Soup,
In this year of 2012, and us Poets escaping the Mayan world end prediction. Isn't it a shame that they ran out of numbers, yet we'll never run out of letters.
As many of you know, in 2012, I've very rarely been on this wonderful poetry site for various reasons. So hopefully 2013 will be the start of my new Mayan calender.
Which leaves me to say, have a wonderful, healthy 2013, and may Poetry Soup grow and grow as our poetry grows.
The Highlander, known as James 
|
|
|
My Poems
|
| Date Posted | Poem Title | Form | Categories |
| 4/1/2013 | Despair | Quatrain | pain,sorrow,war, |
| 3/1/2013 | My Beloved | Couplet | lost,relationship, |
| 1/13/2013 | Together we Became One | Couplet | love,relationship,romance |
| 1/11/2013 | Taken, never Forsaken | Couplet | child,life,loss,love,conf |
| 1/11/2013 | Never say Never | Couplet | life,love,music,music,mus |
| 12/14/2012 | A Moment for Hope | Couplet | death,hope,life, |
| 11/30/2012 | Life's Driven Road | Couplet | life,journey, |
| 11/26/2012 | Isn't it Time, We Seen | Couplet | life,time, |
| 11/17/2012 | It Makes No Sense At All | Sonnet | people,political, |
| 11/17/2012 | These Shores | Rhyme | life,nature, |
| 10/27/2012 | Weeks Later | Rhyme | life,space, |
| 10/27/2012 | No Where to Go | Rhyme | life,space,confusion, |
| 10/23/2012 | She being Christina | Rhyme | life,love, |
| 9/22/2012 | Adventures In Neverland | Rhyme | fantasy,music, |
| 9/21/2012 | Devonshire, Beautiful like the County | Rhyme | on writing and words,than |
| 9/21/2012 | A Breeze From A Past Epoch | Rhyme | life,lost love,love, |
| 9/6/2012 | I've Just Thought | Rhyme | life,autumn,me, |
| 9/1/2012 | I See From My Mind | Rhyme | imagination, |
| 8/24/2012 | When We Can't | Rhyme | people,places,sad, |
| 8/24/2012 | Curvaceously | Verse | love,wife, |
| 8/24/2012 | Us and Them | Senryu | nature,people, |
| 8/24/2012 | I Wake Up Each Morning | Rhyme | life,lost love,love,life, |
| 8/3/2012 | Her Dusk | Couplet | inspirational,nature,plac |
| 7/27/2012 | In Ballerina Stance | Couplet | inspirational,music, |
| 6/8/2012 | The City Sleeps | Quatrain | history,life,loss,politic |
|
Fav Poems
|
| Poem Title | Form | Categories |
| The Bald Eagle | Verse | animals |
| ANOTHER LEADER EMERGES | Rhyme | history,people,social,peo |
| Kilted Warrior | Prose Poetry | death,imagination,loss,pl |
| All On A Summers Eve | Rhyme | nature,sea,seasons,uplift |
| Take Time | Rhyme | inspirationaltime,time, |
| The Bottle | Rhyme | friendship, |
| If I Knew Picasso | Ekphrasis (Ecphrasis) | art,education |
| Mysterious Ways: A True Christmas Story | Rhyme | devotion,faith,holiday,in |
| The Choice of Bonny Aileas | Narrative | adventure,history,love,pa |
| Seashore Flowers | Rhyme | nature |
| The Wild, Wild West | Narrative | cowboy-western,life,peace |
| Buds | Haiku | nature,sea,seasons |
| Manslaughter First Degree | Verse | imagination,lifeme, |
| I Lost a Whole Weekend (Please Pardon My Rant) | Narrative | confusion,dedication,devo |
| Stolen Youth | Rhyme | angst,childhoodchild,abus |
| Past-Life Nightmare | Narrative | mystery,autumn, |
| The Holocaust | I do not know? | history |
| Buildings Go Up | Rhyme | inspirational |
| Soup of Friends | Tetractys | dedication,friendshipme, |
| Don’t Let Right Become Wrong | Verse | family,husband,life,love, |
| Carried by the Wind | Choka | nature |
| She says | Free verse (vers libre) | love |
| In Her Fathers Arms | Free verse (vers libre) | childhood,confusion,daugh |
| A Memorable Person | Narrative | life,peoplelife,me,time,l |
| Happy Mother’s Day | Quatrain | mother |
|
|
|