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Best Saltire Poems

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Premium Member If Only One Saltire Flies
There will be a day when Alba becomes free
To unite this great nation, rid our debris

Join together, families, neighbours and friends
Encourage unity, let Alba ascend

And...

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Categories: saltire, pride,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Under Saltire Skies
I recall the very day, in every male teenagers wish
It's to lie with one's first love and entering loves bliss

Well for me it was so...

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Categories: saltire, love, me, seasons, sensual,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Stone of Destiny
In 1296
Under Edward the first
Our destiny was stolen
My country cursed
 
In 1328 
There were talks of it's return
For six more centuries
We would wait and yearn

On...

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Categories: saltire, dedication, history, inspirational, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nette Onclaud, Princess To Be Queen
The Highlands, our Kingdom, our many Lochs and Glens
Our beauty woos fair maidens to be at the side of Highland men
Their futures to be part...

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Categories: saltire, history, people, places
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Country of the Clans and Glens
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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Categories: saltire, inspirational, places
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Amidst Highland Glens
"without a care in the world the Grouse freely roam"

A quiet hush abounds amidst the scenic Highland Glens
Whilst saltire skies above silhouette a Golden Eagle...

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Categories: saltire, animals, nature
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Storm Over the Glen
Through my living room window
I see the most beautiful glen
With granites of grey
Towering up to a Ben

Greened spreads of heather
Purples and white
Amidst an ocean of...

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Categories: saltire, nature, placesbeautiful, beautiful,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Morning Sun Over the Ben
A new day awakens in a bonnie Scottish Glen
As I await the morning sunshine peeking over the Ben
Standing at the door of my centuries old...

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Categories: saltire, love, placesmorning,
Form: Quatrain
We English Know Aren'T Poets
On the Beeb this morning, on the flagship radio news show, that the grocer's daughter

always listened to but didn't like at all, the National Poet...

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© Peter Dorr  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: saltire, political, red,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soul of a Saint, Life of a Life
This poem you now read
Is of a wonderful man
A brother of old
From a far away land

He stands for so many
On this planet we call earth
To...

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Categories: saltire, people, places, religion
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On the Beach She Walks My Thoughts
From where I sit my eyes view
My darling, my dear, my love so true
Against the rocks, down by the beach
I long to touch her skin...

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Categories: saltire, love, passionsummer, blue, body,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Blue Runs Through Me True
If i was born a crayon
My colour would run its length
It would be of Saltire Blue
My countries colour gives me strength

We are the colour of...

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Categories: saltire, history, inspirational, people, placesme,
Form: Quatrain
Scotland's Monster Dinner
SCOTLAND'S MONSTER DINNER 

          walking upon the moors of Scotland    i saw a sprite who
became a unicorn --...

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Categories: saltire, allusion, scary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Azure Blue Allure
Azure blue allure
As I look into his eyes
Saltire proud is he
Highlands, the Glens, I go
Alba he resides, my love







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Categories: saltire, love, people, places
Form: Tanka
Rofem
Rofem

Sweet Nymph of my heart.

The Merit of true passion,

Pierces me though, I’m not smart

It holds me ransom for compassion

 

For knowing you deserve salute attention

A...

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Categories: saltire, love, me, beauty, beauty,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things