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
Sawney Bean, Legend of a Cannibal - Written In Broad Scots DialectThar 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
Tartan and PipesTradition 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
Blàr Chùil Lodair - the Battle of Culloden16th 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 ThinkI 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
Journey Companions: the Friend Sonnets Part IiHEROES
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
By Now You Have Forgot' - To Whom It May Concern - Part 1Remember 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
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
The Stone of DestinyIn 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
Jan Allison Happy Birthday To You La Breith Sona DhuitLà 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
" the Life of Me " Page 1 of 2My 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
AlbaRustic 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 HamptonshireThe 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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Categories:
scots, adventure, imagination, parody, people,
Form:
Burlesque
My Country Tis of TheeWhite 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
What a MessWith 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
Findlater CastleFindlater 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