Scotland
I couldn't give a toss for the caber
cromach bagpipes sporran or kilt
(a fling's the thing)
and you can stick your dirk in your haggis
up to its bog-wood hilt
yet I'd like to hike through the heather
on happy Sassenach holidays
see the scenery admire the view
along Scottish hilly highways and byways
to pick a pink-purple thistle or two
and should I
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Categories:
highland(a), animal, fun, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
MY UNCLE WEARS A DRESS
My uncle wears a dress
I heard my uncle talking
About his favourite dress,
And how he needs a new one
As its old and in a mess.
He says it`s frayed and tattered
And the pleats are wearing flat,
So he will need to get a new one
That goes right with his hat.
He also wears a frilly blouse
With ruffles on
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Categories:
highland(a), cheer up, childhood, fashion,
Form: Rhyme
Forever doomed to reside at 2 Highland Manor Drive
Forever doomed to reside at 2 Highland Manor Drive
A worse fate than death being hull hive,
I just realized after a surprise inspection
our opportunity to relocate cursed
after yours truly and the missus
subjected to vitriolic wrath
(okay hyperbole employed
for poetic effect)
will exhale his last dying breath
condemned to reside within unit b44,
however many orbitz remain,
whereby yours truly already misspent
six
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Categories:
highland(a), anger, angst, community, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
A healthy dose of invective flourishes at Highland Manor asylum
A healthy dose of invective flourishes at Highland Manor asylum
I hate to be curt,
but welcome to the monkey house
at 2 highland manor drive,
where all manner of imbeciles go berserk.
I and the missus
(thee unfortunate recipient
of poisonous blackened barbed wrath)
more often then not
remain squirreled away
in our one bedroom hovel
designated unit b44.
We desperately search for an alternative abode
ideally,
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Categories:
highland(a), abuse, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Let Me Be a Scottish Highland Bull
When I return to this earth to graze
After this latest life, in a new phase
Please let me be a Scottish Highland Bull
Grazing all over the greenery, getting full.
People will pet me and say I am cute.
I can eat my fill and walk around and toot.
I will not have to pay taxes, insurance or a bill.
I
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Categories:
highland(a), animal,
Form: Rhyme
Swarming Highland
Written: November 06, 2023
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A swarm of herring gulls amassed
Nexus Nautilus nabbed by zealous winds,
whitening the black soil
we hold spears in our hands.
blood-stained thorns on the side
sullen squawks a skirmishing sporophyte,
dubious, grayish rumors must be buried
drave in a drizzle, drape to deities.
Installation of sentry
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Categories:
highland(a), analogy, feelings, fishing,
Form: Free verse
Highlights From Highland Manor
Highlights from Highland Manor
Courtesy Goofus and Gallant
who began their broadly-drawn
moral plays in the 1950s,
initially depicted as identical twins,
but later on, editors for Highlights
indicated the two were brothers,
but not twins, and by 1995,
they simply existed as two unrelated boys.
Analogously, ineptly, and uniformly juxtaposed
slipshod verse best flushed down toilet
or slid down
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Categories:
highland(a), adventure, age, animal, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Fringe Benefits a Plug For Perks Yo Man Living At 2 Highland Manor Drive
Fringe benefits (a plug) for perks (yo man) living at 2 highland manor drive
Expanse of green acres draped
like a petticoat when ye arrive
birds of a feather flock together
and bees gather collect nectar,
pollen, and water to bolster their hive
verdant vista sports
spot for wildlife to thrive
such as; whitetail deer, red fox,
Easter bunnies, garter snakes.
Not only state of
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Categories:
highland(a), adventure, age, america, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Jan's Still Dancing the Highland Fling
Hello dear Jan how are you doing
Are you still dancing the highland fling
Once tried it in vain
Difficult with a cane
This oldie has a broken his mainspring
for Jan Allison
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Categories:
highland(a), anxiety, cheer up,
Form: Limerick
The Rose Inside My Heart - Mr
In the vast expanse of a mountainous highland,
A pretty damsel joyfully waltzed around,
A carefree lass, in the laps of bountiful nature,
Until A Prince trotted by, and magically found.
The Prince wandered for hundreds and hundreds of miles,
searching for the maiden he saw in his dream,
Stunned and astounded was he - was she
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Categories:
highland(a), fantasy, romantic, rose,
Form: Rhyme
Highland Fling
What does a Scotsman wear under his kilt?
Is it Fruit of the Loom?
Is it nuthin'?
When it's cold does he cover himself with a quilt?
How much good Gaelic blood has been spilt
'cause he buried his Wee Willie up to the hilt
In a fair colleen's warm married muffin?
Author's note: Dear reader, after reading Linda Alice Fowler's delightful
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Categories:
highland(a), humor,
Form: Light Verse
Highland Whispers
Highland whispers, echoes of innocence
Noble virtues of man, bereft of insolence
Highland whispers... life's pristine existence.
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Categories:
highland(a), myth, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Tristich
From Highland Park To Afghanistan
Glimpse the state of a nation
~ at its Independence Day Parades
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Categories:
highland(a), celebration, leadership, march, murder,
Form: Monoku
Farchadat Alte Kaker Here At Highland Manor Apartments
I (a youthful sexagenarian)
can no longer quip being
a country boy at heart,
but me as urban cowboy,
I declare would never
so fuhgeddaboudit dear reader
nothing 'cept bucolic existence
laboring organic garden
harvesting fruits and vegetables
by the bushel and quart
constitute an appropriate start.
Don't get me wrong;
Every cell comprising
body electric of mine,
would yearn to prolong
and relish those bygone salad days,
whereat (R)oute
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Categories:
highland(a), adventure, atheist, character, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
One Alarm Fire At Highland Manor Apartments
after dark April 26th, 2022
Prometheus bound out the heavens
to strike fear in the hearts of men and women
reminding us mortals how like oxen yoked
(together via a wooden beam forced
to undergo strenuous labor)
unlike most elderly residents here
at Highland Manor Apartments
whose arising out of bed exertion
tuckers sexagenarians, septuagenarians,
octogenarians, nonagenarians,
and very small number of centenarians out
nevertheless awakening me
courtesy ear
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Categories:
highland(a), adventure, angel, appreciation, april,
Form: Rhyme
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