Hill So High But Unnoticed
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This is an ode about Scotland. Edinburgh was built on seven Hills like Rome (line 2). Aberdeen is Europe’s Oil capital or the Grannite city (line 3). It is also Home to the Oldest tree in Europe: A twisted yew which has stood in Fortingall for 3,000 years (line 4). It has the globe’s highest population of redheads in the world (line 5). Its official animal is the Unicorn and the Thistle is its National symbol (lines 6-8). Edinburgh is the first city to have its own fire brigade in the world (line 10). The raincoat was invented in 1824 in Scotland by Charles Macintosh, Television by John Logne Baird in 1925; Telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 and Penicillin by Alexander Fleming in 1928 (lines 11 & 12).
In its bunch is a branch structurally a twin to Rome
with seven Hills as the nomenclature of its creation.
In its Armpit it holds the granite city and Continent’s oil capital
while the twisted yew stays as the valve to its pumping existence,
while life within it is littered so red from Nature.
The uniqueness of a Unicorn’s awe
spread across the irrigation of exciting young thistles
flashes the dynamism of an influence quite marginalized.
History has visited its countryside
through the pioneering vehicle of the fire brigade.
Invention has become a landlord in its glory
with the accolades of the raincoat, television, telephone and penicillin.
This territory stands as a grade A to any modern society
that’s why its civilized thinking also manifests free water to all.
A glorious entity but just an attachment to an already adorable Kingdom
converts its light to a simple camouflage.
Copyright © Funom Makama | Year Posted 2015
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