Best Clans Poems

Clans, Ilks and Tartans

Woven into threads of red and black,
Girded by grids of white,
Distant plaintive bagpipe memories
Of sunset over Kilmaurs –
A crest that bears a unicorn
Touches royal roots
As a poet’s tribute to a patron lost
Watches neighbors Campbell and Montgomerie
Then looks out on the seas from...

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Scotland, rich in pride
Braw mountainous scenery
Stands proud and salutes
 
Saltire shares the wind
Tartan Highlanders kilted
Kingdom of the clans...

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America, in this modern age
Population so proud
On their ancestors heritage
 
But in the annuls of time
Not that long ago
To a new world they came
Immigrants so
 
They travelled far and wide
Some further than most
Open invitation from their American host
 
Many reasons
As they left their homes
Some directly
While...

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ancestral colours 
rallying the clans
Culloden day trip...

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Highland culture filter
Words out of kilter?
KILT
KILL
DILL
DIAL
DEAL
PEAL
PEAN
PLAN
CLAN
No, clandestine link
Brings the Dress Act of 1746 to the brink!
The mighty kilt
On which highland culture is built...

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