Best Stirling Poems

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“ANTE BELLUM”


BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Deliver......

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"The Boadicea Blood Cup"


Didst thou think? Didst thou?
Didst thou think, at all?
That thou would remain untouched, unchecked, unscathed
Safely l......

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...I have two pairs of boots for walking
one is navy and the other brown
really comfortable they are
step by step up and down

On my travels around Scotland
my boots are always on
one day brown t......

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...The Secret of Christmas

Who could not wish for Christmas?
For I have been witness with my own eyes
I have felt the humanity and joy raining from the skies
I have traveled back in time, long ago......

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...Pied tidings of suburbian 
Magpies,
Squawking and squabbling,
Quarreling ferociously among 
Themselves - 
Rush to steal
From off the beleaguered bird 
tables,
To the annoyance of all concerne......

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...I volunteered for service in the RAF in early 1942,
When I’d just become 18 and got three shillings a day;
I became a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner right through,
And was then sent home to await tr......

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...The Castle On White Otter Lake

That rustic, old log castle
Stands facing the lake.
Built by hand, by one man
To acknowledge his presence,
In a changing world, he felt
He could not part......

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...It started in Stirling, English blood was shed 
A hero was named, All around men lay dead 
The claymore was wielded against many a foe 
Ancient scores settled with every blow 

We marched south ......

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...Now this is a little story of the caravan that rocked
Whether parked in roadside lay-bys, the locals were never shocked

They travelled from the Highlands and motored so far and wide
Exercising t......

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...I will stand in the heather,
I will stand in the glen,
I'll defend my Bannockburn,
With horse, pike and men.

As Bruce I command,
As Robert I will die,
But not on this day,
For English souls ......

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...Rods of iron
All around me – 
No way out.
They ask me to sing,
I don’t want to; yet,
I still do.
I try to break free,
But all I see is the cage.

Rods of iron
All around me.
I’m stuck here......

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...As winter's last barbaric breath
Resounds upon the Stirling hills
New season brings in sun and warmth
Makes a widow of winter's chill.

In winter's fist that held me tight
It's hold seemed to be perp......

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...Disharmony tinted blond, mars the house
My thoughts as cluttered as the mess
The sun slips in as I lie on my couch
It splatters a gem on my chest:
luminosity blessed; lightly touched

Yet my fe......

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...Away back in time many centuries ago,
In the land that I live and know best,
Things were not quite so easy,
You struggled and life was a test,

A man would do all he had to,
Survival the name o......

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...An Arturo Vaso Full Of

?An Arturo Vaso full of vicissitudes of life 
Which I will want for me and my wife. 
Lindsey is truly Stirling silver starting 
to crystalize right before my very eyes 
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