Best Highland Cattle Poems

What can make the heart grow fond
I'll give you the tip
Nothing can satisfy your taste
Like Scottish Steak and chips.

Juicy highland cattle steaks will
melt just past your lips
feeding well the hungry soul
That's Scottish steak and chips.

What can put some fat on you
on your frame and hips
you'll...

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...for Ruby


yesterday, I heard winter crows,
lined up like ink spots on bare branches,
coarse calls to gray winter skies,
clever eyes that held secrets,
of things we should know,
but do not.

last night, I heard an owl call her name,
echoed in the hollow,
rolling up pale frosted hills,
swirled into the...

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Snow chickens dust the high moors.
White partridges grounded by rain
crouch and huddle
burrow into the gorse

then as if forgetting the storm
they heave up into the wet air 
just a little way
just enough to
cluck, bluster, and rattle,

then to settle back
scolding and flustered
as only termagant ptarmigan
can.

Binoculars tight to...

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Snow chickens dust the high moors.
White partridges grounded by rain
crouch and huddle
burrow into the gorse

then as if forgetting the storm
heave up into the wet air 
just a little way
cluck, bluster, and rattle,

only then to settle back
scolding and flustered
as only termagant ptarmigan
can.

Binoculars tight to eyes,
soaked, ankle...

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