Best Syne Poems

“Auld Lang Syne” - the most-sung New Year's Eve song

Courtesy Robert Burns
circa  (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796)
the National Bard,
Bard of Ayrshire
and the...

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On a narrow street of Singalong
  spreads and banners hang along
Wreaths of subjects and icon
  flourish within the alleys of lexicon.

As acid waters...

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 ~ I - I Arrive in Glasgow ~

When I arrived in Glasgow town
I knew nary a soul
So tired I's nearly fallin' down
Yet I'd no...

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I love your heathered highlands,
steep cliffs and rugged islands,
hedges and gardens under
rainclouds of grey.
Old steeples rise above
those small rural towns I love;
your hillsides of sunny...

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Joyful celebrations herald the New Year
Auld Lang Syne sung with those held dear
New Year resolutions have been made
Upbeat about diet … until you get weighed
All...

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The carcasses of rockets litter grass
dark hours advanced since midnight bells have chimed
and revellers stood watching seconds pass
to cheer and kiss to strains of 'Auld...

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~ The night's alive and a-shiver ~


  The moon's a sliver
  a hammock without strings
  a pale banana with wings
  The...

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With long blond hair
And eyes of blue
This American girl
Would light up any room
 
With a complexion so fair
She walks tall and proud
When i see her...

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J ubilee’s song heightens; the bell is rung
A uld Lang Syne…fond memories we all keep,
N ever-ending the pour of chilled wine, that 
U nsaid words...

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ONCE  AGAIN 

Fanciful images play gentle on the minds of children young and old.
Anticipation becomes a forever word that compels dreams and expectations 
to...

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the year ends

auld lang syne echoes

into eternity...

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1 the year end
   auld lang syne , my dear
    into eternity

2 long grass,
   tall nettles-
  ...

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Nach Bhfuil Mo Locht 
or for you English speaking people
"No Mea Culpa"


The Titanic was fine when it left Belfast
Not a blemish on Her hull, or...

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by  Robert (Bob) Moore © 2015

When I was just a lad, and the New Year came around
 We’d sing and dance and party, till...

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Mimi and Mary T.
By

M P Walsh


It was 25 December,
And a snug-warm Christmas day.
The temp was over 50,
The weather: bright, not gray.

But a sadness on this...

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