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Premium Member Comin' Hame - Coming Home -Scottish Dialect
A angry sky, as cauld as Loch Lomon'
fair drew me out from cot o' peat, an' bed.
The wolves wus wailin', an' thund'r respond'd
Ah gather'd tam,...

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Categories: tam, absence, culture, faith, farm,
Form: Terza Rima



Her Fairy Tale Came True
Fairy Hills are gone, with his curse, ruined.
Can this hero be greater than her sin?
Did Father, forgive? He was her desire -   
Oh...

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Categories: tam, fantasy, hero, love, passion,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member Everyone Would Say
Everyone would say,  did you hear?
She's the one
She's too young
How irresponsible

Wearing smiles upon their faces, 
pasting labels on her back
Her sullied reputation,  
a...

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Categories: tam, birth, emotions, feelings, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tragic, When Innocence Was Lost and Love Fled
Tragic, When Innocence Was Lost And Love Fled
(Youth, Dreams And Reality Series) poem number 1)

 
Like lake June swans once so were she and I
Passionate...

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Categories: tam, art, creation, deep, symbolism,
Form: Romanticism
When We Were Young
When we were young
We didn’t know what we could become
What we could have been
When  we were just sixteen.

The road ran  on forever
Summer lasted...

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Categories: tam, art, best friend, fate,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member This Is All Right With Me
I shall never wear a tam-o-shanter in Scotland,
Yet I am satisfied for this is all right with me.
I shall never play my tambourine to a...

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Categories: tam, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Lamb of Spring
 

When Spring rain falls and flowers bloom lambs are born,
and when I see those sweet babies I cannot be forlorn.
My friend has a farm...

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Categories: tam, spring,
Form: Couplet
Men
We're grouped together ready to party 
just standing around waiting for the coach.
Not a stag do exactly, just us men.
Before you ask, it wasn't fancy...

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© John Prior  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tam, character, drink, friendship, funny,
Form: Sestina
Scotland
SCOTLAND

Very big sign on highway A1   going southways    
Out of Scotland into England,  
Painted with thistles, tartans, bagpipes, ...

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Categories: tam, places
Form: Verse
Premium Member Angels and Demons In Her Head
ANGELS AND DEMONS IN HER HEAD


"Abort it!!
and from this day and on, 
no more us.
NO.    MORE.    US.!"
(These the earthshaking...

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Categories: tam, absence, abuse, depression, family,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Mac Caulley
Mac Caulley was a farmer-O
Living off the shores of Badachro
His fields were sown like tartan-O
The crops crisscrossed in every row.

The evening pulled him to the...

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Categories: tam, life, music, places, sound,
Form: Verse
Ode To Tim Tams
Here I have a chocolate meditation,
Writing an ode for edification,
What is a chocolate meditation?
It is packet of Tim Tams, in Oz nation,
Let's hear it for...

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Categories: tam, chocolate,
Form: Free verse
Hats
Hats are such a marvel,
   when the weather is so garbled,
A multitude of quick coverlets to warm the brain
   protect the...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tam, cool, february, wind,
Form: Couplet
Tanka 10
Tam Pierce
a gray mare 
the circus-clowns' car
old uncle Tom Cobbley et al
going to Widecombe Faire...

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Categories: tam, humorous,
Form: Tanka
Aansu
N maang uthi dhadkan se ab ki
             Tinake-tinake se mai bhaaguu
Bache huye is...

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Categories: tam, emotions, pain,
Form: Lyric

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