My Personal Abc
...Ayrshire is where I grew up
Bible is God's book inspired and divine
Christine the great love of my present life
Drawn into contentment a real true sign
Encouragement found in God forever my frien...
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Categories:
burgh, life, memory, self,
Form: Acrostic
Small Towns
...Have you ever lived in a small burgh
Where everyone knows everyone's cirque
And if they don't
They just make it up
Now that's a hoot, people thrive with a smirk...
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Categories:
burgh, humor,
Form: Limerick
The Town Where I Live
...In this town, I've lived for 30 years
having been brought up down Ayrshire way
but meeting Christine took me away
to Renfrew where I'd for rest of life stay
It's a small town just like any othe...
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Categories:
burgh, home, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
The Soldier
...THE SOLDIER
From a tender age I knew will be nuclear:
While my peers sang to the dilemma of Kelly and Nelly,
I slept with Chris de burgh dreaming of no border lines.
The lady in red was my fine...
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Categories:
burgh, childhood, girlfriend, life, memory,
Form: Narrative
A Tale of the Two Kilmarnock's
...Kilmarnock is two places split by Atlantic
one in Virginia other in Ayrshire
they are of different character straits
all bringing their own dimensions higher
The Virginia brand settled way bac...
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Categories:
burgh, america, history,
Form: Rhyme
Free Cee a Street In a Burgh Called the Blues
...A STREET IN A BURGH CALLED THE BLUES
damn
back on the street again
the dime bag copping
ego dropping
dampened dope dreams street again
a street in a burgh called the blues baby
where wicked wi...
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Categories:
burgh, angst, urban,
Form: Free verse
The Linlithgow Marches
...The Linlithgow Marches
On the first Tuesday after
The second Thursday in June
A day steeped in history
Marches day in Lithca Toon
The royal charter granted
Back in thirteen eighty nine
D...
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Categories:
burgh, history, placesday,
Form: Sonnet
Return To the Burgh
...My rivers flow through me,
In my black and golden blood,
Iron city in my system,
Singing songs in Italian inside me,
Feeling home,
Feeling home....
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Categories:
burgh, adventure, nostalgia, people, places
Form: Free verse