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Arran Poems - Poems about Arran


Premium Member A Pilgrimage
seagulls surf the wind my escorts home across the waves streamlined gannets sacred isle in view ...

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Categories: arran, mountains, ocean, peace, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lamlash
We fished off the pier in carefree days when girls wore tartan trews. In endless summer sun we’d laze when Tommy Steele was “Singing the Blues”. Now it’s saffron robes and no-take zones, maybe coffee in the cafe at the pier, replaced by ubiquitous mobile phones, like conversation, things just disappear....

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Categories: arran, change, holiday, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Home Is
clearing morning mist silhouetted hills in view Arran ferry...

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Categories: arran, heart, home,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Pilgrimage
streamlined gannets Holy Isle in view the long journey ends...

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Categories: arran, bird, sea, vacation,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Arran Reverie
Ah,words alone could not suffice, could never match the stirrings of the soul, as in some distant conurbation, the sad heart, with sudden strange elation, yearns to be in Arran. For in those narrow confines dwell, high in the hills and on the wave-washed shore, redeeming spirits, undisguised and splendid. Preening herself upon her glittering throne and basking in a radiance all her own, sits...

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Categories: arran, creation, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member High Cloined, Arran
Half sunk in peat and sodden moss, redundant, clutching at the sky. Rough stones nearby tell of a loss long past. We look and can but try to see beyond this relic on the hill and hear the plaintive echoes still....

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Categories: arran, history, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thoughts of Arran
The air was pure and bright. A sea-salt tingle hovered in an easygoing offshore breeze. In mesmerising rhythm, wavelets sloshed and swished along the timeworn jetty wall. The bay was sparkling in the morning light as early gannets hungrily patrolled their crystal-clear domain.Slight movement now within the overnighting boats, safe moored, serenely sheltered at the break of day. A swan flotilla,...

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Categories: arran, atheist, beautiful, memory, sea,
Form: Free verse

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