Best Clansmen Poems
Charlottesville...I saw Nazis march yesterday
upon the streets of Charlottesville.
And, with swastikas on display,
crazed clansmen chanted blood will spill.
I saw Satan grinning with pride
at racial slu......
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Categories:
clansmen, america, angst, anxiety, bullying,
Form:
Quatrain
Champing At the Bit...Today's Date July 24. 2015
Contest Entry---First written Spring 2015
game bullying, hero, silly, sports, strength, word play,,
Champing At the Bit! ©
I hear the roars in the almighty arena
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Categories:
clansmen, bullying, hero, silly, sports,
Form:
Verse
In Silence We'Ll Strike So Primed...
Look at me now, sitting below darkening skies
Cast out from our Highland home
The Clans now is spiteful despise
To the Glens we shall head, us the fortunate to roam
Away from the Jacobi......
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Categories:
clansmen, day, hope, people, places,
Form:
Quintain (English)
Brutus Iulius Trois Page 08...Brutus Iulius Trois page 08
Suddenly stillness all sounds silenced the last pirate slain.
From the bowels of the Tireme came cheers that grew louder
From men newly freed from their enslavement......
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Categories:
clansmen, history,
Form:
Epic
The Ancestors of the Clan...let’s remember the ancestors
the ancestors of the clan –
the infamous and un-kingly kings
celebrate their inglorious libations
all over my land, my clan –
but, my clansmen
let not the clan forget the......
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Categories:
clansmen, dedication, devotion, passion,
Form:
Haiku: Traditional 27...quail flush from thicket
lined freezing clansmen shooting
many birds die twice
Brian Johnston
March 27, 2016......
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Categories:
clansmen, death, family, life,
Form:
Haiku
A Top a Highland Hill...A Top A Highland Hill
A top a windswept highland hill above Locheil land
Clansmen gathered roun and shook the princes haun
They raised the standard high cheered till they were hoarse
Followed t......
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Categories:
clansmen, allegory, cry,
Form:
Ballad
All the Clan Claps and Sings...may flowers are still beautiful
taking their resolute resolve
to shoot out
to sprout with
ever-new life
they come
home in beautiful colours
like weaver-birds
on the ancient trees
all the clan claps &......
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Categories:
clansmen, devotion, old, old,
Form:
My Clansmen, Tell Me...my clansmen where is mother
where is our companion-she
where that amazon the gazelle
whose fast limbs are paradise-made
my clansmen: it pains it pains
like some delicate & new wounds
we have gone thr......
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Categories:
clansmen, death,
Form:
The Spirits of Culloden...The Spirits of Culloden.
This is like a pilgrimage, a try tae come every year,
Gather at the cairn, meet old friends, wipe away a tear.
Standin on that moor, that once with blood was sodden,
Pay......
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Categories:
clansmen, anniversary, death, dedication, memorial
Form:
Rhyme
In Praise of the Huntress...(for: Deborah Guzzi)
The forest sings for her hunter
The twin of the fierce panther –
& I sing a sonorous song
That echoes beyond the sky
Of a thousand miles;
I sing like Dinta the hunter
C......
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Categories:
clansmen, devotionfor her, for her,
Form:
Free verse
Songs of the River Goddess: I...in those crevices of the ancient rock
within the deepset soul of my river
along the tight passages of my kin-folk
sings the singing goddess of my river –
& her songs awoke the sleepy moon
& her ......
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Categories:
clansmen, visionary,
Form:
The Curse On My Lineage...In These Days, We Prayed
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The Curse On My Linage
Oh linage
I now sit and wonder,
why thou have grown so slow in progress
And wasteful in resources.
Ah!......
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Categories:
clansmen, adventure, africa, age, allusion,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Semaj the Dragon Slayer...In a kingdom called Torridon
On Scotland's west coast
Resides a warrior called Semaj
A Dragon slayer of boast
He has been called upon
To rid an ogre beast
For on his countrymen it does
Conti......
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Categories:
clansmen, fantasy, places, sea
Form:
Rhyme
By a Loch She Stands...By a loch she stands in a hidden Highland Glen
Absorbing the view as she marvels at the Ben
This granite of old with many stories to tell
Of her Clansman's past in the place that they dwell
M......
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Categories:
clansmen, animals, inspirational, love, nature,
Form:
Couplet