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Best Bagpipes Poems

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Premium Member Awaken Bagpipes
awaken bagpipes
riled up in broguish accent
traversing drawbridge
of Cawdor Castle
enchanting chanter and drones...

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Categories: bagpipes, music,
Form: Tanka



Premium Member Bio:Closing Time,Memories



       CLOSING TIME AT THE PUB


The joy, the camaraderie, the smoke.
The great ale, my great friends in Chicago.
Old Town,...

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Categories: bagpipes, chicago, friendship, memory, mental
Form: Bio
Meet Me In Naples
We strolled hand in hand
along Naples cobbled streets
beneath nearly blown- off linen sheets
Hanging  from old  balconies.

Street musicians played their bagpipes
ciaramellas,mandarins
In this southern bustling...

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Categories: bagpipes, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blàr Chùil Lodair - the Battle of Culloden
16th April 1746
The day a country ceased to exist
British Army, Hanoverian scum
Defeated our Jacobite's
Scotland is on the run
 
Our Tartans banished, bagpipes no more
To lead...

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Categories: bagpipes, political, warmen,
Form: Rhyme
Echoes of You
The saddest sound in all the world,
The bagpipes weep as raindrop pearls
Land to take on grass-green hue:
Tears to mourn the loss of you.
Your boys line...

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Categories: bagpipes, grief, hope,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Yasabel
Yasabel

By the waves and salty sea
That falls on shores so close to me

By the battles
Thus fallen comrades go

By the hills and by the lowlands
I wander...

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Categories: bagpipes, flower, imagery, life, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Pub Ii
Inside pub steins stout magic spoke
‘neath genie wisps of bangle smoke
Brown cone cigars, deep chubby pipes
Aromatic spills to breach the night.
Music calls to muted songs...

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Categories: bagpipes, dedication, drink, friendship, ireland,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Death - Reborn - Balassi Stanza
As I take my last breath
The pathway to my death
Is the Arc of a Rainbow

In Darkness, unforeseen 
With a Soul, so unclean
As a Raven’s or...

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Categories: bagpipes, death, life, love, high
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The A-Z of Alliteration
Alan Allston ate an addictive piece of cake.
Bertie bounced his bouncy ball by the bus stop but his brother caught the bouncy ball before the...

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Categories: bagpipes, simple,
Form: List
A Demoralizing Good-Bye
To poetry she said good-bye
Now I live with a Broken Heart
Her words could make me laugh or cry
Or tear my inner soul apart

In a devastating...

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Categories: bagpipes, angel, dedication, inspiration, love,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member Indian Pipe
INDIAN PIPE
(The Corpse Plant)


in the shadows
     in the shadows
          teardrop eyes

Like bagpipes...

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Categories: bagpipes, death, nature,
Form: Verse
Premium Member My Lenore
How Blessed is she, to be with Thee
My only Prayer, she waits for me
With clouds in the sky, I sit and Cry
Why so young, did...

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Categories: bagpipes, death, life, love, wifeheart,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Stairs
You've reached the top, so
                    ...

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Categories: bagpipes, appreciation, depression, encouraging, hope,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Queen Mary of Scotland
Argyle socks, kilts,
Scottish tartan scarves
and Knox — aye
Mary, Queen Mary
shall you marry Darnly
for love? Nay...

Torches, kilts and song.
Heather in hands, waving
but Knox knocks their merry
socks...

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Categories: bagpipes, angst, religion, sad, woman,
Form: Free verse
Scotland 2
Scots they be a hardy bunch in any weather
Ceilidhs yae dance to bagpipes and drums
Oats might be simple, but they are our fuel
Tourists are strangers...

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Categories: bagpipes, beauty, holiday,
Form: Acrostic

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