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Best Scots Poems

Below are the all-time best Scots poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of scots poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Sawney Bean, Legend of a Cannibal - Written In Broad Scots Dialect
Thar was nae richt ae laddie sair
wha heft a cave 'side Galloway,
wi' nae jaiken he griftit dare
as he was nae tae lippen tae.

Ill-naitur'd  fishwife...

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Categories: scots, history,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Tartan and Pipes
Tradition and dress
A nations finesse
Symbolic in style
By a country mile
 
The drone of the pipes
Tartan clad
Bonnie on the girls
Proud on the lads
 
Highland dancers
In kilted...

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Categories: scots, history, inspirational, passion, places
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blàr Chùil Lodair - the Battle of Culloden
16th April 1746
The day a country ceased to exist
British Army, Hanoverian scum
Defeated our Jacobite's
Scotland is on the run
 
Our Tartans banished, bagpipes no more
To lead...

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Categories: scots, political, warmen,
Form: Rhyme
I Shudder To Think
I SHUDDER TO  THINK 

I  shudder to think about the way 
Some  vegetables are  abused every day -
With physical  and...

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Categories: scots, funny
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Journey Companions: the Friend Sonnets Part Ii
HEROES

Near somber guards, units of children heap 
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of...

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Categories: scots, friend, hero, places, poetry,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member By Now You Have Forgot' - To Whom It May Concern - Part 1
Remember all the Wise Men on their knees upon your yacht?
With orphans on their backs they’d crawled (with others that they’d brought)
Through rubble on the...

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Categories: scots, war,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member The Scottish Thistle
I am the
Scot's thistle
The emblem of my
proud country it has
been our valiant
pride for so
           ...

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Categories: scots, history, inspirational, nature, people,
Form: Concrete
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: scots, dedication, history, inspirational, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jan Allison Happy Birthday To You La Breith Sona Dhuit
Là breith sona dhuit

My best kilt I wear so very proud
Me pipes are flowing of music loud
The glens and thistle I bring them to you
For...

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Categories: scots, angel, birthday, celebration, january,
Form: Verse
Premium Member " the Life of Me " Page 1 of 2
My name is James, born 1961
In Inverness, a small Scots town
To my father Andrew, and my mother Beryl
And Billy my brother, a pair of devils
...

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Categories: scots, brother, childhood, death, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Alba
Rustic mountains
Through glaciations
Moulded this wonderful
Scottish Nation
 
Caledonian Forests
Covered our land
On our Western Islands
Golden beached sands
 
Glens and rivers
Cris cross our land
Glorious moors
Where the Highland Stag...

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Categories: scots, animals, history, inspirational, life,
Form: Rhyme
Horrendous Hobyah Hordes Hijack Hamptonshire
The Scots, by God,
They drove them out,
With a single Yorkie
At their heels a' yappin'
The Hobyahs tried to fly
Their arms they were a flappin'

Some managed to...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scots, adventure, imagination, parody, people,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member My Country Tis of Thee
White stars, red and white stripes.
	Blue for loyalty.
Waving in the wind, instilling pride.
	Reminding us of pledge.
		Apple pie, Chevrolet, John Wayne.

Viet Nam, Gulf War, 
	Freedom of...

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Categories: scots, patriotic, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What a Mess
With sanctions imposed frequently between
Countries around the world,
With Trump and Little Rocket man, still rattling
Scabbards, ridiculous, absurd,
With Hong Kong’s unhappy population,
Protesting against Chinese rule and...

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Categories: scots, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Findlater Castle
Findlater Castle overlooks the Moray Firth
In Scotland's north, situated on a quartz perch
Norse named, fyn leitr
The white cliff, for King Alexander
 
1246 historical note
In the...

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Categories: scots, history, people, places, political
Form: Rhyme

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