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Premium Member Laird Merde
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The Living Death beneath Macbeth

"The top 1 percent of households globally own 43 percent of all personal 
  wealth, while the bottom 50 percent...

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Categories: laird, pain,
Form: Sonnet



If Only I Had Known
If Only I Had Known
What trouble you were bearing,
But how could I,You just didn’t feel
you should be sharing.
 
If Only I Had Known
That you had...

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Categories: laird, caregiving, confusion, death, forgiveness,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Volunteer, a Poem Inspired By Hrh Prince George of Cambridge
'We have a future king to make,'
Said the deep, resounding voice.
'But it is not a proper fit for everyone.
For a king must know first how...

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Categories: laird, baby, baptism, birth, child,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Scotland's Anthem
Love of my mother's Scotland knows no bounds,
yet she, like me, was destined far to roam.
Her wistful music of the isles surrounds
my everyday, her voice...

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© Peter Rees  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: laird, patriotic, people, political, pride,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shaggy Dog Limericks: the All-Time Best -- Vote For Your Favorite
The Spaniel

A Spaniel that uses its head 
Can tell when its owner’s unfed 
So instead of a duck
That is down on its luck 
Will deliver...

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Categories: laird, animal, cat, cute, dog,
Form: Limerick



Misanthropist Keeper of Sins
Don't lie to me. Don't half-truth to me,
like some craven jar, wide of mouth and
full of capricious weather. And never sing 
to me tunes not...

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Categories: laird, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Ode To An Heroic Trio: a Contra Diction
Hear Me, O Muse, no moos or cluckings, muckings or horns of fog

Do sound the clamoring claxons of the bardics that be written by William...

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Categories: laird, hero, hyperbole, nonsense, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Girl Who Became Queen
Long ago
In a far away land
With stags in the glens
Salmon leaping so grand
 
This ancient Kingdom
With its lonely King
Longs for a maiden
To make his heart...

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Categories: laird, fantasy, happiness, life, loveheart,
Form: Rhyme
The Footfalls Towards Forever - Part 1 of 3
(Isaiah 50: 4, 5 /  Song of Solomon  /  John 11: 23 – 27  /  Revelation 21: 3, 4)


Out of...

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Categories: laird, allegory, christian, devotion, love,
Form: Ballad
Robert Moffat
Gang awa frae tha Glen
Tae a fearsome place;
Where tha darkened souls
Hae na gleemps o’grace.
Where tha work must fit
A new tongue and race.
Gang awa frae tha...

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© Doug Blair  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: laird, christian, endurance, inspirational, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Amsterdam
***I personally don't indulge in "soothing weed" 
                 ...

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Categories: laird, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
' Devonshire and Fraser ... ' 44th Senryu
‘ Devonshire and Fraser … ’      44th   Senryu

Some Poems, Highland Fling
Kilt-Clad-Portrait, Scotland’s Theme
The Laird of Sweet-Dreams

Devonshire, The Dove
A...

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Categories: laird, adventure, dedication, friendship, introspection,
Form: Senryu
Chestnut Blight
As each fatigued day culls my nature
Mine mind does Judas thee
And tinker pon the waves of hope
Muted Banshee

My blighted roots once writhed hitherto
Severed from earths...

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Categories: laird, hope, nostalgia, , Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
The Ballad of James Skene
His name was James Skene
He came from Aberdeen
Sent down to Edinburgh to die,
The brother of the Laird
Land and power shared
Everything that Scotland could supply.

But inward...

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© Peter Hall  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: laird, history,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Shaggy Dog Limericks Ii
The Bichon Frise

The Bichon in chiffon looks so frou 
That the crowd duly wowed has to coo 
‘Til the dog starts to droop
And its owner...

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Categories: laird, animal, cute, dog, funny,
Form: Limerick

Book: Reflection on the Important Things