Less Drought By Words
...The hoi polloi were inquisitive of pelting
Forage famine and began to shrivelling
Drought blanket and upon the entire bush
The thatches restored ramshackle to meagre
And starvation startling the ...
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Categories:
crofters, absence, allah,
Form: Free verse
An Independant Scotland
...AN INDEPENDENT SCOTLAND? (Or, Beware The English)
by Damian on June 15, 2014. © Damian Cranney, All rights reserved
An independent Scotland,
That will do just fine,
We no longer have to listen
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Categories:
crofters, england, farewell, freedom, friendship,
Form: Verse
A,W,I,C,L
...A walk In Crofters Lane.
I like to walk down Crofters Lane
among the thick hedgerow.
and listen to the critters sounds
as I quietly go.
A rabbit bobs his head up
as if to say ," Hello!"
T...
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Categories:
crofters, creation, children,
Form: Rhyme
N,H,C,D
...Nothing He Could Do!
As I sat watching the river by an old craggy wall
in Glendyke Lane near Crofters Brew.
A small face looked up at me as he popped his head through.
"Hello." said I, "Now don...
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Categories:
crofters, children, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Crofters Night
...We remove the stones from the field
like they were rotten teeth
stepped carefully over hawthorn hedge
stepped with tired and heavy feet
Remember this by the fireside
ash and flame and sap and...
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Categories:
crofters, allusion, poverty,
Form: I do not know?
Wallace
...Scottish crofters from Wallace's time,
trying to make a living of the land
committing not any crime.
With God’s grace and will to raise
a family keeping it simple, yet nothing
was going to be ...
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Categories:
crofters, freedom,
Form: I do not know?
Highland Clearances Or Human Clearances
...On the Isle of Skye and Raasay
In eighteen fifty one,
The English Government army
Cleared Scotland's daughters and sons,
Cumberland burned their villages
To ensure cultural disappearance,
Was t...
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Categories:
crofters, history
Form: Rhyme